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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4f4pk9$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <310D62F9.324D@myp.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2309 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13322 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. ;-)