Commit c71206a7 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by J. Bruce Fields

NFSD: Note an additional requirement when passing TCP sockets to portlist

User space must call listen(3) on SOCK_STREAM sockets passed into
/proc/fs/nfsd/portlist, otherwise that listener is ignored.  Document
this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
parent 0b7c2f6f
......@@ -1061,7 +1061,9 @@ static ssize_t __write_ports(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
* buf: C string containing an unsigned
* integer value representing a bound
* but unconnected socket that is to be
* used as an NFSD listener
* used as an NFSD listener; listen(3)
* must be called for a SOCK_STREAM
* socket, otherwise it is ignored
* size: non-zero length of C string in @buf
* Output:
* On success: NFS service is started;
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