Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:34:23 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256? |
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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.
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