A new patch for sunrpc/clnt_udp.c

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed Apr 14 23:12:00 GMT 1999


hjl@varesearch.com (H.J. Lu) writes:

> Here is a new patch for sunrpc/clnt_udp.c. I optimized it a little.
> The problem is applications may time out on call to portmap to
> localhost for NIS during shutdown. Machine acts as if it hangs.
> This patch tries to fix it.

Lacking a better way I've applied the patch.  I don't really like it
since it seems a bit unportable and very specific for this one case
and might even have side effects.  But I don't know enough about this
stuff.  So send patches if it breaks something.

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