Steve Dickson: > On 05/28/2011 12:45 PM, Jim Rees wrote: >> Chuck Lever wrote: >> >> So, we could also address this by getting rid of the legacy RPC behavior >> instead. However, in cases like this, I typically choose to stick with >> legacy behavior, since that improves backwards compatibility. It already >> works like this for legacy RPC builds, so in some sense we are stuck with >> it. >> >> Ok. I remember the earlier discussion but forgot that the patch simply >> restores older behavior that was changed by tirpc. In that case I'll go >> along with Mi's patch. > I am all for restoring the older behavior, but unfortunately this patch > does not do it. > > I when back and took a look at how the nfs-utils-1.2.2 code worked. > While its true both mountd and statd read ports from /etc/service, > they did not fail when those ports were already taken. They just > bound to random ephemeral ports, which is probably the reason none of > us noticed they were reading ports out of /etc/services. With > Mi's patch, both daemons fail when the ports in /etc/service are > already taken. Hi steve, Do you mean the daemons can't run? I test nfs-utils-1.2.2 at fedora15, mountd can bind to the port reading form /etc/service. So, can you post some error or other message here? thanks, Mi Jinlong -- 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
