From: Peter Staubach Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] SUNRPC: Use RPC procedure name in call_verify Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:38:38 -0400 Message-ID: <483417CE.1070308@redhat.com> References: <20080520202108.3851.7464.stgit@ellison.1015granger.net> <20080520202941.3851.61861.stgit@ellison.1015granger.net> <1211318498.26809.13.camel@localhost> <48341218.10009@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Talpey, Thomas" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:42780 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764354AbYEUMi5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 08:38:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Talpey, Thomas wrote: > At 08:14 AM 5/21/2008, Peter Staubach wrote: > >> I have seen servers which didn't implement the NULL_PROC procedure >> for protocols like NFS_ACL. Beats me why. >> > > Names. We want names. :-) :-) Names withheld to prevent embarrassment of the guilty? Actually, I don't remember anymore who they were, but I suspect that I would have complained to them at the time. It just isn't that hard to implement a procedure which doesn't do anything but respond to the client. ps