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From:   "Benjamin Coddington" <bcodding@redhat.com>
To:     "Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails
Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:27:17 -0400
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On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:26, Benjamin Coddington wrote:

> 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?

Naive, even..?

Ben