On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 13:51 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > In both cases, it turns out that the library implementations in user > space already fail quickly. RPC_CANTRECV is returned if an attempt is > made to send an rpcbind query to an inactive UDP port. > RPC_SYSTEMERROR/ECONNREFUSED is returned if an attempt is made to send > an rpcbind query to an inactive TCP port. In my view, the kernel is > lacking here, and should be made to emulate user space more closely. I fully agree that we can fix the above by more judicious interpretation of the returned networking errors. What I don't see eye to eye with is the assertion that has been floating about that the current behaviour should be a good enough reason to add kernel AF_LOCAL support. Trond -- 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
