On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:22:06PM -0500, Danhua Shao wrote:
> I check the source code, and found that the NFS v3 server handle request
> "NULL" in rpc_null_v3() in nfs_server.c. But where is the corresponding
> request on client side?
I suspect it's never called by the client (except via rpcinfo(1M)).
The NULL ("ping") procedure is meant to be useful for diagnostics tools
like rpcinfo(1M).
That said, I lied: the RPCSEC_GSS client code does call the NULL
procedure -- it has to, see RFC2203.
Nico
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