Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:54:39 -0400 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: Can an NFS server legitimately duplicate directory entry cookies? |
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Chris Siebenmann wrote: > > It appears that a SGI NFS server (Irix 6.2) can sometimes return the > same directory cookie for two successive entries in the directory > (if I am tracing the code right, the cookie is stuffed in the dirent > structure's d_off member by the kernel's getdents(); otherwise, my test > program is printing something else). This appears to sometimes cause the > getdents() syscall to enter a state where it always returns the same entry. > > Is this legitimate behavior of the SGI NFS server implementation, and > thus a problem with the Linux NFS client nfs_readdir(), or is this an > SGI bug that I should club them about?
My understanding was that the cookies would be unique, as the NFS client code looks for a matching cookie value to find its way in the directory cache. So I would say to report this to SGI as a bug and see what they say.
Regards, Bill
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