From: Olaf Kirch <okir@lst.de>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen
	on a privileged port??
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:07:36 +0200
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On Friday 27 April 2007 17:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'd be interested in why people want the netconfig stuff.  I can't
> see how it makes any sense out of context on a socket based system.

Well, it's a nice if you have a single handle that ties address family,
socket type, ipproto and a name (aka netid) together. That's all, at
least from my point of view. Representing all that info as strings
in a netconfig object is not all that useful

Olaf
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