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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:11:33 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, karl@Mcs.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NFS node: disappearing directory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961021111032.14906H-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610181904.MAA01751@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Ah, another question requiring more than a 10 line answer.  8-(.
> 
> 
> > > > But 3) says it does get reloaded.
> > > 
> > > Sometimes.  But if go to the "up-level" when it happens and do a "ls", you
> > > get a VERY short list (~10% of what's really there - right about 200
> > > entries)
> > 
> > Umm.  Is John around?  What kind of memory does the result of readdir go
> > into?
> 
> Depends on the FS.  For NFS, "bogus cookie handling memory which was
> allocated for fear the user buffer would be too small to return the
> data".
> 
> The problem is cookie related.  The fix is to get rid of the cookie
> code.

The problem is cookie related but in the client.  The cookie stuff Terry
is going on about is in the server which is irrelavent to this bug.

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