[OpenAFS-devel] what are ~/.AFSSERVER and /.AFSSERVER?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 aeneous@speakeasy.org 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