Re: [NFS] [PATCH] kNFSD - Allowing rpc.nfsd to setting of the port,transport and version the server will use

[Steve Dickson]

Hey Bruce,

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> So the obvious question is what will happen if someone does
>
> 	rpc.nfsd -N 3
>
> on a server supporting 2, 3, and 4.
>
> It looks like the code in svc_create() will set pg_lovers to 2 and
> pg_hivers to 4 in that case.  So if someone tries to use version 3, the
> error they get back will be a somewhat contradictory "sorry, I only
> support versions 2 through 4."
hmmm.... good point... But I wonder if this would be better
handled in rpc.nfsd process; Similar to what happens when
no transports are specified (i.e. both -T and -U flags are set),
the server fails to started.

steved.
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