Re: 2.1.70: stange NFS modes

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 05 Dec 1997 16:17:18 -0500


Finn Arne Gangstad wrote:

> I ran snoop -v on a solaris machine to see what really happens, this might
> be interesting. It seems you can't trust the reply on a mkdir. I'm not
> sure whether this is against the spec or not.

I haven't read the NFS specs, but based on my understanding the AIX
server is broken -- the mkdir proc is supposed to return a valid fattr.

I'll try to work up some sort of work-around for the problem ...

Regards,
Bill