Re: Clarifications: CVS Import Bug - Please Respond

[Larry Jones]

Derek Price writes [quoting me]:
> >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.
> 
> Possibly, but as far as I know it is a common problem.  Don't know why.

"Common" as in "occurs with lots of different implementations" or
"common" as in "occurs with lots of different machines, all of which are
running some variant of Linux"?  If it were the former, I'd have
expected to have run into it long ago.

-Larry Jones

Shut up and go get me some antiseptic. -- Calvin