Re: nfs in 2.0.33 ?

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:36:50 +0200 (MET DST)

"A month of sundays ago Alan Cox wrote:"
> security aspects with device files and /proc that can be interesting if
> mishandled.
>
> NFS file permissions are applied at the time the request is made, normally,
> but sometimes the handles may cache permissions dependant on the client/server
> pair, and in some case those may randomly expire making the whole thing
> fail in unpredictable ways
>

Solaris at least seems to put a .ns* file in directories it is writing

Solaris also complains about absence of file locking on nfs directories
imported from linux, no matter what I do vis a vis flock, etc.
A little bird tells me it is related ...
to over nfs. That may be putting thhe state back into stateless nfs.

> Alan
>

Peter

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