Re: 3.18.1: broken directory with one file too many

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 05:42:36PM +0100, Holger HoffstÃtte wrote:
> On 12/18/14 17:32, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > So this is two separate tests, both failed, the only difference is that
> > the tcpdump was run on the client in one case and the server in the
> > other?
> 
> Exactly: client first, then I realized you'd want to look at the server-side too.
> That being said..

Whoops, now I see, the server-side trace has the same problem, I just
overlooked it the first time.

> > Right, I suspect there's a bug in the server's encoding of the reply to
> > the READDIR rpc.  Odd that the encoding would look correct from the
> > point of view of tcpdump on the server but not from the point of view of
> > tcpdump on the client.
> 
> ..in order to rule out a mistake on my part with the two separate runs (which prevents correlated analysis) I was just about to boot the server back into 3.18.1 and re-run both client- and server-side traces simultaneously. However I have to head out for a bit first; will post that later today.

So this might still be interesting, but it's not a high priority.

--b.
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