On Tuesday February 6, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Samuel Flory wrote:
>
> > someone (you?) talking about v3 issues with SGI boxes under 2.4 on the
> > nfs list. I didn't much pay much attention as it wasn't an issue I
> > could help with.
>
> that might have been me...
>
> the issues were related to how IRIX nfs client expects server to
> behave wrt to device files and other special files. First problemo
> was fixed, second one (FIFOs) is apparently undefined for NFS.
Just FYI, these should be completely fixed by
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/knfsd-2.2/2.2.19-pre8/patch-F-nfsirix
already submitted to Alan and
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.2-pre1/patch-D-nfsirix
not yet submitted to Linus.
NeilBrown
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.2-pre1/patch-D-nfsirix
> not yet submitted to Linus.
>
ahh. didn't know. I have the first patch you sent me for the weird
IRIX device file permissions checking - but i didn't notice this
second pipe patch.
will give it whirl. thanks neil.
> NeilBrown
>
>
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