On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:03 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:42 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On 03/16/2012 01:36 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > > > The problem is that if the client doesn't have a machine cred, then you > > > end up taking a random user credential that may not currently be holding > > > any OPEN files. In that case too the RENEW will fail. > > > > So if i'm understanding this right: > > > > Sachin's proposal fails when the machine has no machine creds. > > > > The current implementation fails when the logged-in user's credentials > > are expired. > > > > Can the NFS client's logic test for those different cases, use the > > appropriate creds for RENEW in their difference, and reduce the failure > > case to their intersection? > > Simpler solution: add the call to get machine creds to the existing > get_renew_creds function. Hello Trond, I've sent a patch to the Mailing list using your suggestion above. Thanks Sachin Prabhu -- 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
