I have a system (which is using the legacy SUN derived rpcbind). For some reason, showmount wasn't "always" working. It reported nothing when running from the command line, but worked under strace (ugh!) I was running fedora8 (showmount 1.1.0). I built nfs-utils 1.1.2 -- same problems. (I just tried a 1.0.6 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 -- it worked fine) Running the code under gdb, I found some "interesting" problems... I changed: bash2 :2 mleisner@mleisner-linux 05:59:55; rcsdiff -u showmount.c =================================================================== RCS file: showmount.c,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 showmount.c --- showmount.c 2008/07/17 21:28:59 1.1 +++ showmount.c 2008/07/17 21:45:45 @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ * * tout contains the timeout. It will be modified to contain the time * remaining (i.e. time provided - time elasped). + * + * Returns 0 if it works */ static int connect_nb(int fd, struct sockaddr_in *addr, struct timeval *tout) { @@ -177,7 +179,7 @@ tout.tv_sec = TIMEOUT_TCP; ret = connect_nb(sock, &saddr, &tout); - if (ret == -1) { + if (ret < 0) { close(sock); rpc_createerr.cf_stat = RPC_SYSTEMERROR; rpc_createerr.cf_error.re_errno = errno; @@ -350,7 +352,7 @@ MOUNTPROG, MOUNTVERS, IPPROTO_TCP); if (server_addr.sin_port) { ret = connect_nb(msock, &server_addr, 0); - if (ret != -1) + if (ret == 0) mclient = clnttcp_create(&server_addr, MOUNTPROG, MOUNTVERS, &msock, 0, 0); and now it works.... marty -- 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