Re: Old NFS Errors still in 2.1.105

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:07:59 +0100 (BST)

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> 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.

Its an outstanding buglet in the 2.1.x NFS client code. Its actually
very bad for diskless machines.

Alan

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