(was slashes, now NFS devices)

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <thurlow.667754478 at convex.convex.com> thurlow at convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:

>So how about telling us about some of them, rather than just ranting?
>Maybe those of us who work with the NFS code can learn something new.

How about this one: a client opens a file on a server to read from it.
While the client is still reading from that file, the file gets unlinked
by a process running in the server. It happens that this was the only link
to the file. What happens when the client does the next read() ?
What happens in the same situation where the process reading from
that file is on the server?

Hint: NFS is stateless ...
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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