On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > anything which calls a pioctl. i have patches which I think are also from
> > Dan Lovinger which effectively disable the remote syscall interface stuff
> > as a compile-time option; I should dust them off.
>
> fwiw, "lpioctl" doesn't look for AFSSERVER, so if you're building utilities
> whose performance really matters, you can leave it out. What's neat about
> putting this in the pioctl lib is that all the afs utilities work similarly
> whether being run via NFS or AFS. I'm skeptical that the small and rare performance
>gain is worth the confusion engendered by generous ladings of
> switches, or otherwise identical programs that work differently.
All these patches do is directly call lpioctl always; No switches, no
multiple copies of programs. We haven't used them in years for basically
that reason: it usually doesn't matter.
-D
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