Re: [PATCH 3/3] sunrpc: reduce timeout when unregistering rpcbind registrations.

Trond Myklebust
2009-07-06T16:23:17Z

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 21:38 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> BTW, it seems my questions on using RPC_CLNT_CREATE_ flag and using
> AF_LOCAL sockets got overshadowed (seen below) by the patch. Would
> making rpcbind using AF_LOCAL sockets a good idea or connected UDP still
> seems a better solution?

The kernel RPC client doesn't support AF_LOCAL sockets. Why would we
want to add them when we already have other mechanisms to communicate
with userland that provide the same functionality?

Trond
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