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Article #3026Re: Symlink locking considered useless over NFS
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 23:40
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 23:40
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In <280EE8A1.30D@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >This "solution" is nothing of the kind. >NFS can report failure on a symlink creation (or on directory >creation) even if the operation succeeds. How about calling it "the closest thing to a solution that has yet been seen on Usenet"? I seem to remember an email message from you to which I sent a brief reply of thanks; perhaps my reply failed somewhere. (Hmmm....maybe your mail software uses symlinks for locking, and the lock failed, so you never got my reply :-) -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM> UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!ss168!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Symlink locking considered useless over NFS Message-ID: <3074@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 19 Apr 91 23:40:46 GMT References: <2800BA22.1CAE@tct.com> <1991Apr09.160512.1300@chinet.chi.il.us> <3064@cirrusl.UUCP> <280EE8A1.30D@tct.com> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM> Lines: 17