From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: Ed Schouten <ed@il.fontys.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] lockd: remove hardcoded maximum NLM cookie length
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:48:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041010044819.GC14977@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60256.217.121.83.210.1097351510.squirrel@217.121.83.210>
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:51:50PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> At the moment, the NLM cookie length is fixed to 8 bytes, while 1024 is
> the theoretical maximum. FreeBSD uses 16 bytes, Mac OS X uses 20 bytes.
> Therefore we need to make the length dynamic (which I set to 32 bytes).
MacOS X has used 8 byte cookies since 10.3.4, so FreeBSD is the only
known interop issue.
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
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2004-10-09 19:51 [Patch] lockd: remove hardcoded maximum NLM cookie length Ed Schouten
2004-10-10 4:48 ` Greg Banks [this message]
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