From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS crash problem in readdirplus
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:10:02 -0400
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on den 20.04.2005 Klokka 11:34 (-0700) skreiv Steven:

> I think that a maxcount of 0 is an invalid argument.  The rfc says that
> the size must include all XDR overhead so there is no way to reply
> successfully when maxcount is 0.

Note that _strictly_ speaking, maxcount gives the maximum size for the
entire READDIRPLUS3resok structure (including post_op attr and cookie
verifier).
This is something we appear to have overlooked in both the client and
server and applies to READDIR too. It also applies to NFSv4.

Cheers,
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>



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