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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:26:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302101325340.26526-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8140ddf33550d8b11bcc1843b7a01a2@vitanuova.com>

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, C H Forsyth wrote:

> i don't quite see how they could provide a `commit' effect unless they finally
> added a Close operation to the clunky protocol.

that was the joy of it. NFS was a very informal business. Close turned to
a set of operations that were in essence a commit of cached writes. These
could fail ...

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-10 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-10 16:19 C H Forsyth
2003-02-10 20:26 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-09 10:05 Aharon Robbins
2003-02-09 19:48 ` Mike Haertel
2003-02-10 10:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-10 11:58   ` Russ Cox
2003-02-10 15:20   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-11  9:29     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-02-11 10:25       ` Geoff Collyer

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