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SubjectRe: NFS Client patch
Craig Soules <soules@happyplace.pdl.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> Ok, perhaps I mis-spoke slightly. What the spec does state is that the
> cookie is opaque. This has generally been interpreted to mean that you
> should not trust it to be stable after a change to that directory.

I thought the generally accepted meaning of "opaque" in this context was
"don't expect to be able to infer anything relevant from this data". This has
nothing to do with how long a particular cookie is valid.

Charles
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