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Date:      Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:52:24 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c nfs_diskless.c nfs_vfsops.c nfsdiskless.h
Message-ID:  <20030816095224.GA76750@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <18873.1061021665@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030816081235.GC74853@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <18873.1061021665@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 10:14:25AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <20030816081235.GC74853@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy wri
>tes:
>>Not if / is NFS mounted:  Removing the file on the client just renames
>>it to a .nfsXXXXXXXX name.  It retains the original permissions and
>>is still on both the client and server under this dummy name.
>
>I thought we had magic which prevented client lookup of those names ?

Not in 4.x.  They show up normally in a ls(1) output and can be read,
written and linked normally on both client and server.  About the only
thing that's special is that they can't be unlinked.

I'm not sure about 5.x.

Peter



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