Re: rpc.rexd source for Linux?

[Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
>>That got me thinking -- why not add that execve wrapper to Linux's
>>native NFS package?  Then I went looking, and discovered that 
>>(perhaps wisely) Linux's NFS package doesn't include 'on' or 'rpc.rexd'.
> 
> I don't follow your logic here. What has on/rpc.rexd to do with NFS ? 
> Sure, they are both supposed to use RPC as do lots of others (look in 
> /etc/rpc), but other than this ? So why bundle on with NFS ?

Two reasons:
1. they were part of Sun's original NFS
2. they are only useful if there's a distributed filesystem like NFS in use

But if y'all think those are too weak, then that's fine, it can stay
out of the NFS package.

The question remains - has anyone seen an open source implementation
of rpc.rexd?

Thanks,
Dan





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