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* [PATCH 0/2] Make libtirpc work with old style portmapper
@ 2010-08-30 13:03 Olaf Kirch
  2010-08-30 13:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce new helper function getpmaphandle Olaf Kirch
  2010-08-30 15:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make libtirpc work with old style portmapper Chuck Lever
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Kirch @ 2010-08-30 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-nfs; +Cc: nfsv4, Steve Dickson


Hi Steve et al,

We recently got a bug report from a customer trying to run nfs-utils
(which is compiled against libtirpc on SLES 11) on a system with
portmapper installed instead of rpcbind. Which failed miserably,
because none of the RPC servers was able to register with portmap.

One might argue, if it hurts don't do it, but OTOH this configuration
isn't totally outlandish. In particular, ISVs may decide they want
to compile an RPC enabled application against libtirpc, but still
want it to run on a wide range of Linux versions.

I looked into the issue and put together the following two patches,
which I'm submitting for your kindly review.

Thanks
Olaf
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2010-08-30 13:03 [PATCH 0/2] Make libtirpc work with old style portmapper Olaf Kirch
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2010-08-30 13:04   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Olaf Kirch
2010-08-30 15:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make libtirpc work with old style portmapper Chuck Lever
2010-08-30 16:19   ` Olaf Kirch
2010-08-30 23:48     ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-07 11:27       ` Olaf Kirch
2010-09-07 15:36         ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-07 20:58           ` Olaf Kirch
2010-09-07 21:15             ` Chuck Lever

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