Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Adam J. Richter) | Subject | NFS hard link permissions problem in Linux 1.99.6 | Date | 20 May 1996 08:11:05 GMT |
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I realize that there were no changes to the NFS code in linux-pre2.0.6. Nevertheless, upon upgrading to pre2.0.6 (1.99.6), I have started experiencing intermittent "permission denied" errors when I attempt to make a hard link via NFS. I first noticed the problem because rn would refuse to run about half of the times when I would invoke it (invoking it immediately after the failure would often work). strace revevealed that rn was getting an error from the "link" system call. From that, I was able to reproduce the problem by using the "ln" command.
For example:
ln .newsrc .onewsrc
...will fail with "permission denied" about half of the times that I try it. I can try it repeatedly and get different results (until it succeeds, after which I will just get "file exists").
I have been unable to reproduce the problem on a non-NFS filesystem.
-- Adam J. Richter Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated (408) 261-6630 "Free Software For The Rest of Us."
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