For NFSv3 you could indeed check the size at open time - that size might
change on you across the network but as an initial check yes you are
indeed perfectly correct. Good point.
> development code of the maintainer of these packages). Sun did it
> like this: they ship 2.6 with the new interface and all system tools
> rewritten to use the LFS interface.
Ok.
> I think we need not see the interface/libc change and the tools
> separately: both upgrades will have to happen at the same time and
> doing this is easy.
That makes a lot of sense.