From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: nfs-utils, e_maptype
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:28:44 -0500
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To: Olaf Kirch <okir@lst.de>
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:45PM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:21, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Anybody know what the e_maptype export field is for?  It seems to be
> > unused.
> 
> IINM it goes back to the unfsd days. You could do different types of uid
> mapping there - 1:1 mapping, using NIS, or using some funky contraption called
> rpc.ugidd. Yes, we had uid mapping before NFSv4, and no, it wasnt pretty :-)

Some things are just timeless.

So does that someone somewhere could theoretically be using this code
right now?  On a quick glance I'd convinced myself it was totally dead,
but I wasn't thinking about unfsd.  I have no clue how it interacts with
anything else in nfs-utils.

--b.

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