I'd certainly prefer that. Opening a socket from bh-land just isn't safe,
whether it's the net-bh or anything else.
I applied Alan's patch, because it certainly can't make things any worse,
but it still sounds (from Alan's and Davids emails - I haven't actually
personally looked at what the TCP client needs to do) like we're doing
something dodgy with bh handlers.
(And I don't think it has to be a rpciod thread, it could just as well be
a "per-mount-TCP-thread" - threads are certainly low-cost enough that it
might make sense to have one per mount).
Linus
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