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Subject: Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails
Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:26:21 -0400
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On 11 Sep 2019, at 12:39, Chuck Lever wrote:

>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Benjamin Coddington 
>> <bcodding@redhat.com> wrote:
>>

>> Instead, I think we want to make sure the mic falls squarely into the 
>> tail
>> every time.
>
> I'm not clear how you could do that. The length of the page data is 
> not
> known to the client before it parses the reply. Are you suggesting 
> that
> gss_unwrap should do it somehow?

Is it too niave to always put the mic at the end of the tail?

Ben