contributed RFS

terryl at tekcrl.UUCP terryl at tekcrl.UUCP
Sun Jan 19 08:42:40 AEST 1986


> I applaud the contribution of RFS (which should be given some
> other name to avoid confusion with AT&T's "RFS"), but I take
> issue with the claim that one does not want "find / -print"
> to cross over to remote file systems as it traverses the
> directory.  To the contrary, that is the whole point of RFS
> transparency.  There are some good examples (such as grepping
> for "rnj" in /n/*/etc/passwd) in a Bell Labs paper published
> one or two USENIXes ago.

     Ah, but probably not. Suppose two systems were linked by an RFS.
Then, a "find / -print" would go into an infinite loop traversing both
systems' file systems. Thus, you don't want find to cross over remote
file systems. This (and similar) arguments are the same for symbolic
links.



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