From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kNFSd 001 of 4] fix setattr-on-symlink error return
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:35:23 -0400
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James Yarbrough wrote:

>As I recall, the SpecFS tests exercise the NFS protocols directly, rather
>than through the filesystem interface provided by the client OS.
>
>Peter Staubach wrote:
>  
>
>>Just out of curiosity, how does the testsuite even generate a chmod(2)
>>request on a symbolic link?  The chmod(2) system call semantics should
>>not allow this.
>>    
>>

Are we talking about the SPEC SFS benchmark or something else?

    Thanx...

       ps


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