Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 02:33:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] symlink caching and network filesystems |
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Erez Zadok wrote:
> I'm not sure this is relevant, but please ensure that there's a way for > mount() to turn off such symlink caching. It's useful for my user-level > hlfsd to turn off symlink caching, esp. over nfs. (Hlfsd creates a symlink > that points to different places depending on the euid accessing the symlink; > it's used to redirect /var/mail to users' home dirs.)
Wait a minute. Are you talking about the userland server + normal NFS client combination? <scratching head> Hrrrmm... But READLINK in NFSv2 (and IIRC in v3 too) doesn't pass credentials, right? Could you elaborate on that?
> When symlink caching first showed up in solaris/sgi, they really messed up > hlfsd, until there was a way to turn it off. Some bsd44 derivatives still > have problems w/ turning off symlink caches that hlfsd cannot work on them.
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