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Date:      Tue, 4 May 1999 20:19:34 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, jso@research.att.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/11470: V3 NFS problem (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905042018040.637-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905041842.LAA18532@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     I'm going to move this to -hackers to allow people to pool their interest
>     in regards to fixing the remaining NFS problems.  I am also CCing the
>     parties involved.
> 
>     In regards to kern/11470.  This bug report is relative to FreeBSD-3.1.
>     I haven't had rm -rf problems myself, and there were a huge number of bugs
>     fixed in NFS in FreeBSD-stable (3.x) since the 3.1 release.
> 
>     I would ask jso@research.att.com to update his 3.1 machines to the latest
>     FreeBSD-stable and repeat his tests.
> 
>     I will comment on Kevin's bug report below next to his itemized list.

Note that this is really a bug in someone elses NFS client. FreeBSD is
running the server here and is gratuitously (but perfectly legally)
invalidating the client's cookies. I fixed a bunch of this kind of thing
in FreeBSD's client a couple of years ago.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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