Re: NFS mounts -- time stamp problems?

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From: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:53

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ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen) writes:


>We have a Unix network with Sun's and NeXT machines mixed together, with
>home directories on the NeXT hard disks.

>Apparently, date stamping works incorrectly when setting  stamps
>explicitly, instead of inheriting the dates from the file system.

>Touching a file yields a date of January 1 1970, which is somewhat
>incorrect.   I *think* this is date Zero, but why should that be?

Is this under 2.x or 3.0?
I have seen similar time-related problems when 'touch'ing files that
are actually on a Sun exported via nfs to a NeXT under 2.1.  It was
acknowledged as a known bug and fixed in 3.0 when they supposedly
re-wrote much of the nfs code.
-- 
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