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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
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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:26:14 -0700
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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