🚀 go-pugleaf

According to Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM>:
>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 would agree with that assessment, as long as it were followed by the
disclaimer, "but then, 'almost solved' means 'not solved.'"

If I had a Sun machine, I'd avoid NFS-mounted mailboxes like the
plague.  (I'd shun cliches, too; but that's another story.)

>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 :-)

Well, I apologize if I ruffled any feathers.  What really sets me off
is when a vendor creates a problem for which no reasonable workaround
exists, and then lets it endure for a long time.  Sun's motto should
be: "Our Lockd Matches Our NFS Protocol: They're Both Broken".
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