Re: [NFS] [PATCH 019 of 19] knfsd: Register all RPC programs withportmapper by default

[Peter Staubach]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 9/1/06, Olaf Kirch <okir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:31:25AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >     
> > > I don't like this.  The idea that multiple RPC services are listening
> > > on the same port is a total hack.  What other service might use this
> > > besides NFSACL?
> > >       
> > Why do you consider this a hack? I have always felt that librpc requiring
> > you to open separate ports for every program you register was a poor
> > design. The RPC header contains the program number, and the RPC code
> > is fully capable of demuxing incoming requests. So I do not think it is
> > a hack at all.
> >
> > And yes, Solaris NFSACL resides on 2049 too.
> >     
>
> I meant "Does Solaris advertise NFSACL on 2049 via the portmapper?"

Yes, the Solaris server registers the NFS_ACL service with the rpcbind
daemon.  And, the NFS_ACL protocol is defined to use port 2049.  Please
see nfs_acl.x (/usr/include/rpcsvc/nfs_acl.x) for details.

      ps
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