From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH] make capabilities support optional Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:54:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD5C54C.60705@RedHat.com> References: <1271753213-17374-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <4BD5B013.9060705@oracle.com> <4BD5BAD8.5040209@RedHat.com> <201004261251.12210.vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Chuck Lever , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Frysinger Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43703 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752543Ab0DZQym (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:54:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201004261251.12210.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/26/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 12:10:00 Steve Dickson wrote: >> On 04/26/2010 11:24 AM, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> At the very least, I think the man page should mention this bug somehow, >>> and maybe a warning should be generated during the build. Since this is >>> mostly for embedded systems, according to Mike, I doubt an actual >>> generated run-time warning would be visible to anyone. >> >> Mike would you be willing to test this out and document any >> differences in statd behaviour with and without that config >> flag set? > > i think a BUGS section in statd is sufficient, but if you wanted to go > further, then a simple syslog() would be OK as well. dumping warnings to > stderr/stdout is obnoxious and non-standard for daemons. those really only > should be written when a daemon is quitting due to misconfiguration. I agree... a blurb in the BUGS section is all that is needed.. > > i can send a patch for the man page, but i'd only copy and paste what Chuck > wrote (about statd remaining registered upon exit). That would be good... thanks! steved.