From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, okir@monad.swb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc svc: be quieter
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:29:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142371759.7987.27.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441733C0.5040605@gentoo.org>
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:21 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Trond,
>
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > They are probably trying to ping the server with a NULL procedure call
> > to test for service availability. We should allow that particular
> > usage...
>
> Thanks, that sounds likely. Can you give some hints as to how a NULL
> procedure call might appear? Would testing for prog==0 and/or proc==0 be
> appropriate?
I can't see that authorising calls to prog==0 could ever be useful (what
would that mean?), but proc==0 is another matter: that is precisely the
NULL procedure call that I mentioned above.
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 0:55 Daniel Drake
2006-03-05 13:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-06 20:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-03-14 21:21 ` Daniel Drake
2006-03-14 21:29 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-04-19 11:14 ` Daniel Drake
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