Bug#711021: mount.nfs timeout for GETPORT is much too short

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Ben,

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 08:58:46PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I'm not sure that this bug was ever fixed.
> 
> nfs-utils actually uses nfs_getport() to get the port.  That passes a
> timeout of {-1, 0} to libtirpc, which is invalid and should result in
> using the rpcbind client's default timeout.
> 
> The TCP client interface is implemented in src/clnt_vc.c.  It has a
> default timeout (ct_wait field) that can be set with CLNT_CONTROL(...,
> CLSET_TIMEOUT, ...), but nfs-utils doesn't seem to do that.  So it
> seems like there is a default timeout of 0!

Is this still something we need to report upstream? (And if so, could
you do it?).

Regards,
Salvatore