Re: Clarifications: CVS Import Bug - Please Respond

[Larry Jones]

Derek Price writes:
> 
> Something like both clients would query the lock directory's existence
> and if they had cached that it didn't exist, both would return a
> successful status code to a program before they get the failure response
> from the NFS server.

As far as I remember, we don't query the lock directory's existence, we
just try to create it and see whether it fails or not.  Since directory
creation is supposed to be atomic, even under NFS, I would argue that
any NFS implementation that returns based on a cache rather than waiting
for the server response is just plain broken.

-Larry Jones

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