[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Why do we fall back to trying /sbin/portmap?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Thomas Hood]
> > In mountnfs.sh, why do we fall back to trying to start /sbin/portmap
> > directly if /etc/init.d/portmap not present?
> 
> I have no idea, on several levels.  First of all, I do not understand
> why we start portmap, because portmap isn't needed to be a NFS client.

What about the NFS RPC services, like locking?

> No idea.  I do not really understand why it is there in the first
> place.

Neither do I :(  Miquel might.

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