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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: portmap failure
Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:28:09 GMT
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Dean Roth <dean@myp.com> writes:
> 1. I reconfigured the kernel to allow 512 concurrently open files
> per user and portmap failed. It worked O.K. with a kernel configured
> for 256 concurrently open files per user. Why would it fail with 512?

Because it's broken and makes fixed assumptions?

> 2. A small error exists in the portmap code in BSDI and FreeBSD.
> The error message states that run_svc quit early. It should say
> "svc_run returned unexpectedly".

Well... Ok, the diff is sitting in my /tmp.  Next time i'm going to
dial into the Internet, i will commit the fix.  Thanks!

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)