e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) (12/18/89)
If one attempts to create a file on a read-only nfs-mounted filesystem, one gets the extremely confusing error message "bad file number" in a bsd environment. sysv is better, but terse: "cannot create" aegis tells you why: "attempted write to read-only filesystem" Eric Wassenaar -- Organization: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: +31 20 592 0412, Home: +31 20 909449, Telefax: +31 20 592 5155 Internet: e07@nikhef.nl