Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: NFSD error: dentry not negative! | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:16:10 -0800 (PST) |
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> >>>Justin Hahn said: > > I'm getting a LOT of the following sorts of errors while I'm > > downloading stuff off of gnome CVS. The server is 2.2.0pre8, with the > > knfs-981204 package. I've never seen this particular error before, > > anyone know if it's harmful? > > Linux of glibc tests if a file/dir exsits before it trys to create > one. SunOS does not. You will see the > > nfsd_create: dentry foo/bar not negative > > message everytime to try to create a file/directory that already > exists using these clients. >
Why does glibc do two system calls instead of one, especially since it doesn't buy you anything (race conditions?)
-hpa
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