Re: synchronous AF_LOCAL connect

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:21:39AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 06:03:37PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > OK, I've added that check and fixed some other bugs (thanks to Chuck for
> > some help in IRC).
> > 
> > I think that gets rpcbind working in containers fine.
> > 
> > gss-proxy has one more problem: it needs to do upcalls from nfsd threads
> > which won't have the right filesystem namespace.
> > 
> > I get a write from gss-proxy when it starts and can do an initial
> > connect then using its context.  But if we disconnect after that I'm
> > stuck.
> > 
> > Does it cause any problems if I just set the idle_timeout to 0 for
> > AF_LOCAL?
> 
> That gives me the following three patches.  They work for me.
> 
> Would it make more sense to make the idle timeout configurable?  I
> couldn't see why disconnecting idle AF_LOCAL rpcbind connections would
> be particularly important anyway.

Also posted a new version of the gss-proxy series including these
patches.

--b.