Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File locking problem with knfsd and IRIX | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:22:15 +0100 | From | Olaf Kirch <> |
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On Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:39:40 EST, "Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" wrote: > But wait a minute. I noticed places in the code which checks for > special cases like HP-UX. Now we'll have a new special case for 4byte > cookies only for Irix. If these can be any size up to 1024bytes, > shouldn't that be handled?
No. The size of the cookie is basically an implementation feature. With 4 byte cookies we've covered quite a number of client/server OS combinations. Along comes IRIX with 8 bytes. So what? I don't expect a lot more surpises in that area.
The NLM protocol is difficult enough in itself, and hard enough to make compatible with both the OpenGroup doc and Sun's ``golden standard'' implementation at the same time. I don't see why any sane engineer should take the pains of using XXL cookies.
> I would love to be able to fix this problem, but I'm not confident > in my abilities to make this change. (Also, I don't have access to a > machine which I can reboot very often, nor one that I can make unstable > through mistakes.)
Well, you did the other patch. Doing this one should be merely a job of grep and a little care:-)
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