Re: ANNOUNCE: nfs-utils-2.3.1 released.

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 15:37 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> On 01/04/2018 08:59 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 16:11 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 21 2017, Andreas Radke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This new version fails make check here now:
> > > > 
> > > > nsm_client.c:147:12: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
> > > >     my_prog = atoi(optarg);
> > > >     ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > nsm_client.c:148:3: note: here
> > > >    case 'v':
> > > >    ^~~~
> > > 
> > > What do you think Jeff, you introduced this code 8 years ago and this
> > > switch statement has always been broken.
> > 
> > Ouch!
> 
> We don't hold it against you.. 8-)
> > 
> > > Does anyone use this code?  Should we fix it, it just remove it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > make[4]: *** No rule to make target '../../support/nfs/libnfs.a',
> > > > needed by 'nsm_client'.
> > > 
> > > This looks like a bug in automake???  ../../support/nfs/libnfs.a is
> > > listed as _LDADD
> > > 
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Program-and-Library-Variables.html#index-maude_005fAR
> > > 
> > > which should add it to the 'ld' command, but I don't see that it should
> > > be added as a dependency.
> > > 
> > > > make[4]: Target 'nsm_client' not remade because of errors.
> > > > make[3]: *** [Makefile:565: check-am] Error 2
> > > > make[2]: *** [Makefile:567: check] Error 2
> > > > statdb_dump.c: In function ‘dump_host’:
> > > > statdb_dump.c:38:17: warning: unused parameter ‘timestamp’ [-Wunused-parameter]
> > > >     const time_t timestamp)
> > > >                  ^~~~~~~~~
> > > 
> > > This arg has to be there because it is part of an external API.
> > > As the function is passed as an arg to an extern function, gcc could
> > > deduce that the signature cannot be changed just because the arg isn't
> > > needed.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > statdb_dump.c: In function ‘main’:
> > > > statdb_dump.c:91:10: warning: unused parameter ‘argc’ [-Wunused-parameter]
> > > >  main(int argc, char **argv)
> > > >           ^~~~
> > > 
> > > This arg doesn't need to be used (obviously) but cannot be removed.
> > > So this is a dumb warning too.
> > > 
> > > Maybe we should add __attribute__((unused)) ??
> > > 
> > > > make[3]: *** No rule to make target '../support/nfs/libnfs.a', needed by 'statdb_dump'.
> > > > make[3]: Target 'statdb_dump' not remade because of errors.
> > > > make[2]: *** [Makefile:1028: check-am] Error 2
> > > > make[1]: *** [Makefile:717: check-recursive] Error 1
> > > > make[1]: Target 'check' not remade because of errors.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I assume you get these errors by running "make check" without first
> > > running "make"??
> > > If you run "make" first, the errors go away, and you are left with the
> > > warnings.
> > > 
> > > Maybe they are worth fixing .... let's see what Jeff thinks.
> > > 
> > > NeilBrown
> > 
> > I don't have any particular attachment to this code these days. statd is
> > legacy code at this point. I'm fine with removing it.
> > 
> > If we do intend to keep it though, then we should definitely fix that
> > switch statement.
> 
> I really think the question is if this is dead code... lets to
> the appropriate thing... with all due respect... of course! :-) 
> 
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>