From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 4 12:19:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A4314E09 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA53767; Tue, 4 May 1999 20:19:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:19:34 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Kevin Day , jso@research.att.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/11470: V3 NFS problem (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199905041842.LAA18532@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message