Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 10:08 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
>>>  
>>> +/*
>>> + * RFC1833/RFC3530 rpcbind (v3+) well-known netid's.
>>> + */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_UDP	"\165\144\160"		/* "udp" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_TCP	"\164\143\160"		/* "tcp" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_UDP6	"\165\144\160\066"	/* "udp6" */
>>> +#define	RPCB_NETID_TCP6	"\164\143\160\066"	/* "tcp6" */
> 
> BTW: Any reason why we are using escaped octal instead of plain ascii
> here?

Is there a guarantee that these C strings will be US-ASCII on *every* 
platform in every locale on which Linux kernels are built?  Z-series, 
for example?

If yes, then we can use a normal string.