[Patch] mountd: unknown purpose

[Neil Brown]

On Saturday June 21, hch at infradead.org wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > And old patch still present in mandriva nfs-utils package, from an  
> > unknown author
> 
> This would avoid an EOVERFLOW when the export point has a > 32bit inode
> number.  This seems like a good idea, but the right thing would be to
> just compile nfs-utils with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 which I suspect other
> distros might be doing.

Maybe it is a very old patch...

In 2005, we added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CPPFLAGS in the configure
script (commit 8bf6277b27b95b7b458a3d6f613ebbaed417253c) and a little
over a year ago that was changed in commit
   6108478a99884f38c8afd1d1f2a0de1580113bd2
to use "AC_SYS_LARGEFILE" which causes autoconf to do all the right
magic.

So I definitely don't think this patch is wanted.

NeilBrown