On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:59:29PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:36 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:28:59AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > Has any thought been given to moving all of the rpc_pipefs upcalls to use > > > the keyctl API that David Howells did? It seems like that would be better > > > suited to this sort of application than rpc_pipefs... > > > > I haven't looked at it. I've just assumed that since Trond and Kevin > > have both looked at both API's, then there must be some good reason > > we're not using it.... > > Kevin has spent quite some time working on the keyring support, but as > far as I understand the amount of time he can continue to spend working > for CITI has recently been heavily reduced... Hm, but I thought that you'd both decided that the gssd upcalls would end up coexisting with the upcalls in any case? If there's a chance we might end up replacing the gssd upcalls entirely, then--while I don't want to stretch out this one task indefinitely--still it might be worth my time to go take a look at the keyctl API's Jeff mentions. --b. -- 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
