From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] register NFS_ACL with rpcbind
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:13:27 +0100
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On Monday 02 November 2009 10:59:07 pm Peter Staubach wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Here is a patch to modify the NFS server to register the NFS_ACL
> services with the rpcbind daemon.  This allows the client to
> ping for the existence of the NFS_ACL support via commands such
> as "rpcinfo -t <server> nfs_acl".
> 
> This patch also modifies the NFS_ACL support so that responses
> to version 2 NULLPROC requests can be made.
> 
> The changelog for the patch which turned off this functionality
> mentioned something about not registering the NFS_ACL as being
> part of some tradition.  I can't find this tradition and the
> only other implementation which supports NFS_ACL does register
> them with the rpcbind daemon.

I don't understand the reasoning behind .vs_hidden for NFS_ACL, hopefully Olaf 
can clarify. NFS_ACL is the only user of .vs_hidden as far as I can see 
though, so if this is changeg, shouldn't the entire commit bc5fea4 which 
introduced the flag be reverted?

Thanks,
Andreas