From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:35:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:34:43 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:40708 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:34:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:34:23 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Andi Kleen Cc: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256? Message-ID: <20020122233423.A5741@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200201171351.g0HDpdK05456@bliss.uni-koblenz.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20020122123220.A27968@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20020122231702.A30689@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122231702.A30689@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:32:20PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > Andi, the patch above begs two questions in my mind: > > > > 1. Why to bind to 0 (INADDR_ANY) explicitly? My patch does not bind > > at all and expects connect() to bind automatically. It is how > > userland works and it seems to work here as well. > > No real reason. Should work too. Actually there is a reason. Without a bind the portmapper is unlikely to work. -Andi