Re: nfs-utils and libnfsidmap

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:41:21PM +0100, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/23/2011 03:13 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:54:06PM +0100, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> today was tracing a bug in nfs-utils/libnfsidmap and after a log
> >>> debugging located it and
> >>> finally realized that it's already fixed by Steve Dickson (
> >>> http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=d22ef3f525d71b565fcc688557273a6cabeeb71a
> >>> ). Nevertheless during
> >>> this procedure it turned out that there is quite some code duplicated
> >>> between nfs-utils and
> >>> libnfsidmap.
> >>>
> >>> Questions:
> >>>    a) why nfs-utils duplicates some part of libnfsidmap and still depends o it
> >>>    b) is there readon for code duplication? Licensing or so
> >>>    c) what ww need to do to get rid of duplication
> >>>
> >>> I expect the answer of 'c' will contain something like time and man power.
> >>> I am volunteering to to pend some time on it.
> >>
> >> I doubt there's any real reason for duplication.
> > Just curious as to what code we are talking about...
> 
> for example
>   nfs-utils/support/nfs/conffile.c  => libnfsidmap/cfg.c
>   nfs-utils/utils/idmapd/queue.h =>  libnfsidmap/queue.h
> 
> probably some other files as well.

OK.  I'm sure reasonable patches would be welcomed.

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