Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:06:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Craig Soules <> | Subject | RE: NFS Client patch |
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, J. Richard Sladkey wrote: > This interpretation isn't useful. If a second client modifies the > directory while the first client is reading a directory, the first > client has no way of knowing that its cookie is now invalid, yet it > clearly will be invalid if the server's cookies are invalid after > any directory modifying operation.
I believe that the behavior in this case is still undetermanistic. More generically, if one person is writing to a file and another is reading, it is unclear what that person will get at all.
Craig
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