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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] mount.nfs: Don't allow the user to specify	addr= or clientaddr=.
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:25:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070824172529.GA6690@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070824171116.10418.56059.stgit@monet.1015granger.net>

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> The current mount.nfs implementation doesn't allow users to specify their
> own addr= or clientaddr= option.

Don't we need clientaddr= in some cases to get the callback channel
working?

> The new string-based interface does allow this, even though nfs(5)
> does not document 'addr=' and specifically forbids adding
> 'clientaddr='.

It says that it's currently ignored, which isn't the same as forbidding
it.

I'm probably missing the point of the patch.

--b.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 17:11 [PATCH 2/9] mount.nfs: Don't allow the user to specify addr= or clientaddr= Chuck Lever
2007-08-24 17:25 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-08-24 18:16   ` Chuck Lever
2007-08-25 11:07     ` Jeff Layton

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