touching a sgi file from a sun

[Trevor Paquette]

In article <1991Jan18.001557.25918 at cs.ubc.ca> buchanan at cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan) writes:
>We ran into an interesting problem here, I think it points out a bug but
>I don't know wether to point the finger at sgi or at sun.  This is the
>scenario. 
>
>IRIX 3.3.1 exports a file system.  SPARC1 runing SUNOS 4.1 imports.
>
>On the sun sparcstation I get the following weird interaction.
>
>chaplin [48] ~ % ls -l foo
>-rw-r--r--  1 buchanan        0 Jan 17 16:09 foo
>chaplin [49] ~ % touch foo
>chaplin [50] ~ % ls -l foo
>-rw-r--r--  1 buchanan        0 Dec 31  1969 foo
>
>(The wierdness is the date on the second listing of the file)
>When this is done on a filesystem exported from a IRIX 3.2.1 system
>the interaction is correct.  This seems to be a problem that
>came about during the upgrade to 3.3.1, however, we also upgraded the
>sun around that time so it is possible that the problem lies with
>that other company.

   This also happens here under 3.3.2.. VERY annoying when sharing source
 between machines.. Is this a known problem and/or is there a fix?

   Trev

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