Re: [PATCH 0/4 rpcbind] Supprt abstract addresses and disable broadcast

[Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>]

On 3/4/24 1:29 PM, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Neil, Steve,
> 
>> Hey Neil,
> 
>> My apologies on addressing this...
>> Too much PTO :-)
> 
>> On 2/25/24 6:53 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
>>> The first two patches here I wrote some years ago but never posted - sorry.
>>> The third and fourth allow rpcbind to work with an abstract AF_UNIX
>>> address as preferentially used by recent kernels.
> 
>>> NeilBrown
> 
> 
>>>    [PATCH 1/4] manpage: describe use of extra port for broadcast rpc
>>>    [PATCH 2/4] rpcbind: allow broadcast RPC to be disabled.
>> You realize that the broadcast code is configured out by default
>> ./configure  --help | grep rmt
>>    --enable-rmtcalls       Enables Remote Calls [default=no]
> 
>> So do we want to introduce a flag and man page section
>> for something that is off by default?
> 
> I would say man page does not harm.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, it's disabled in openSUSE and Debian/Ubuntu, maybe
> disabling flag is really not needed.
As well as RHEL but not Fedora.

steved.

> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
>> steved.
>>>    [PATCH 3/4] Listen on an AF_UNIX abstract address if supported.
>>>    [PATCH 4/4] rpcinfo: try connecting using abstract address.
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