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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: NFS mounts -- time stamp problems?
- Message-ID: <C1Jxtu.H2q@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1993Jan25.191725.23058@imada.ou.dk>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:53:40 GMT
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- ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen) writes:
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- >We have a Unix network with Sun's and NeXT machines mixed together, with
- >home directories on the NeXT hard disks.
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- >Apparently, date stamping works incorrectly when setting stamps
- >explicitly, instead of inheriting the dates from the file system.
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- >Touching a file yields a date of January 1 1970, which is somewhat
- >incorrect. I *think* this is date Zero, but why should that be?
-
- Is this under 2.x or 3.0?
- I have seen similar time-related problems when 'touch'ing files that
- are actually on a Sun exported via nfs to a NeXT under 2.1. It was
- acknowledged as a known bug and fixed in 3.0 when they supposedly
- re-wrote much of the nfs code.
- --
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