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

Trond Myklebust
2009-07-06T16:41:42Z

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:31 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I have considered that. AF_LOCAL in fact could replace all of our
> upcall mechanisms. However, portmapper, which doesn't support
> AF_LOCAL, is still used in some distributions.

As could AF_NETLINK, fork(), pipes, fifos, etc... Again: why would we
want to saddle ourselves with rpc over AF_LOCAL?

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Trond Myklebust
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