On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:46:04 -0500 Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I see any benefit in using old-style fileservers, but > > forcing people to change I guess may be going a bit far. Removing > > the DAFS ifdef greatly simplifies a lot of code, though. Would it be > > objectionable to remove it for the next dev branch? > > in an environment where pthreads don't exist, i suspect DAFS would be > not that useful. Yeah. > the question (to me) boils down to "how much do we care about that > environment" and i'd argue until we no longer provide an LWP > fileserver we de facto do. we should explore that question, but it's > out of scope for 1.6 regardless. Okay, but does anyone really run the LWP fileserver anywhere? > >> Comments? > > > > +1 on all other points. In addition, remove --enable-unix-sockets, > > which is already (confusingly) the default, and remove the > > associated #ifdefs. Is there any reason to not use unix sockets for > > SYNC? > > no unix sockets on Windows and possibly some platforms depending on > kernel configuration. It also strikes me as really insecure, since it allows any local process to make SYNC calls. Perhaps a warning when disabled? -- Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info