vemula@shire.cs.psu.edu (Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati) (01/30/90)
We have a network of Sun-3 and Sun-4 (Sparcstations) operating on a common file system through NFS protocols. I noticed the following problem recently and I was wondering if it is a "specification" of NFS Or is a problem... - Log onto two different workstations. The user files on all systems are the same. So I modify one existing file from one system. - From the other system I run a Tex program which reads this file through its "\input" command. And "tex" complains that the file I am trying to read is missing. - However, on the same system that I ran Tex, "cat" on that file would be successful. Now if I run Tex, it will go through. This is highly repeatable. It looks like a traditional "latest" copy problem among multiple "update" processes.