From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: reason for mountd upcall
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 11:11:26 -0400
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To: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 06:44 -0700, mehta kiran wrote:
> Hi,
>      I see number of files in nfsd filesystem which
>      are readable and writable by user processes
>      like rpc.mountd(for upcalls).
>      Looks like same thing can be  done in kernel.
>      Is this only to move some
>      complex code from kernel to userland ?

Why on earth would we want to put crap like reverse DNS, NIS, LDAP,
kerberos, ... in the kernel?

Cheers,
   Trond


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