On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:50 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > This adds the new text-based gss upcall. We only allow an open from > either the new pipe or the old one, and use the pipe_open method to > enforce this. > > If no pipes are open, we provisionally queue messages for the new pipe; > a subsequent open of the old pipe will cause all those messages to be > purged. > > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- I'm not happy about allowing the gss_auth layer to control timeouts and cancel upcalls either: that caused us way too much grief and bugs in earlier revisions of rpc_pipefs. Why not rather disallow queueing (i.e. put the task to sleep, and maybe print out a reminder on the console every minute or so) until you are notified by the rpc_pipefs layer that someone has opened the file for reading? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
