While debugging a rather strange WINE problem I came across a 2.4.x 
NFS race condition.
I trimmed down the WINE code to a very small testcase, attached below, 
which has following test patterns:
	
	ext2 local			: SUCCESS
	2.4.5-ac6  -> 2.2.10 (unfsd)	: FAIL
	2.4.2-ac26 -> 2.4.2ac26	(knfsd)	: FAIL
	2.2.14     -> 2.4.2ac26	(knfsd)	: SUCCESS
For me this looks like there is a problem in the 2.4 NFS client.
The sleep() appears to be a key part. If we only sleep 1 second the
test usually succeeds. With 5 it always fails.
I am using the default mount options for nfs.
Ciao, Marcus
#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
main() {
    int fd;
    unsigned char *ptr;
    char buf[10];
    memset(buf,'0',10);
    fd = open("/home/lstcore/mm/test.out",O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,0644);
    assert(fd!=-1);
    ftruncate(fd,512);
    ptr=mmap(NULL,512,PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,MAP_SHARED,fd,0);
    ptr[0]=0x42;
    munmap(ptr,512);
    sleep(5);
    ftruncate(fd,69632);
    ptr=mmap(NULL,69632,PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,MAP_SHARED,fd,0);
    assert(ptr[0]==0x42);
    fprintf(stderr,"There was no race. Lucky you!\n");
}
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