Re: Old NFS Errors still in 2.1.105

Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:23:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Michael Lausch wrote:

>
> The problem is that the rename() system call fails on an NFS mounted
> file if the file is still opened() by the same or another
> process. This causes ddd to not save its configuration file and exmh
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to raise error dialog boxes.

Ah, thanks for confirming this problem. I've been noticing that same
(annoying) behavior and thought it had something to do with file locking.
As a workaround, I have been manually erasing the original config file
before doing a save (yes, ugly).

> Is this problem being solved until the 2.2 kernel? Is it NFS daemon
> related (still unsing usnf with 2.0.34 kernels)?

I'm seeing it with knfsd and 2.1.x kernels, so it may be an inherent
incompatibility between NFS semantics and ddd. Bill?

Steve

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