On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:36:30PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:25:02PM -0800, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
> wrote:
> > > "proc" => procedure
> >
> > Yes, "proc" sounds too much like process; however "procedure" sounds like
> > something new I didn't know about in NFSv4.
>
> "Procedure" is part of ONC/RPC (NFS being an ONC/RPC "program") and goes
> back ~20 years (more when you consider the other, then popular RPC
> frameworks).
>
> > > and that is what NULL and COMPOUND are. They are procedures.
> > > The "operations" are NFSv4 inventions and not part of the
> > > RPC/XDR nomenclature.
> >
> > While I'm sure that's true, from what I've read about NFSv4 the terms
> > "compound" and "operation" are familiar, and the term "procedure" isn't.
>
> Well, NFSv2/3 never had compounds nor operations -- they only had
> procedures. So, "proc" is nothing new.
It is something new, for customers who have read Sun's documentation -
which was my point.
"Many Solaris NFS version 3 operations return the file attributes,"
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4555/6maoqui8f?a=view
Good luck finding "procedure" used in the exact same context. Sun's use
of "operation" to mean "procedure" goes back many years.
Brendan
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Brendan
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