buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan) (01/18/91)
We ran into an interesting problem here, I think it points out a bug but I don't know wether to point the finger at sgi or at sun. This is the scenario. IRIX 3.3.1 exports a file system. SPARC1 runing SUNOS 4.1 imports. On the sun sparcstation I get the following weird interaction. chaplin [48] ~ % ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 buchanan 0 Jan 17 16:09 foo chaplin [49] ~ % touch foo chaplin [50] ~ % ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 buchanan 0 Dec 31 1969 foo (The wierdness is the date on the second listing of the file) When this is done on a filesystem exported from a IRIX 3.2.1 system the interaction is correct. This seems to be a problem that came about during the upgrade to 3.3.1, however, we also upgraded the sun around that time so it is possible that the problem lies with that other company. ========================================================================= | |===============================| | John Buchanan (juancho) | buchanan@cs.ubc.ca | | Imager Manager |===============================| | Imager | (604) 228-2218 | | Department of Computer Science |===============================| | University of British Columbia | Standard disclaimer | | Vancouver, BC, Canada | included in this | | | box, right here. | ========================================================================= | This from ;login: (The USENIX Association Newsletter), Sep/Oct 1990, | | in a report on a Usenix Standards BOF session: | | | | An overheard conversation: | | | | -"Mach was the greatest intellectual fraud in the last ten years." | | | | -"What about X?" | | | | -"I said `intellectual' " | | | =========================================================================
paquette@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) (01/19/91)
In article <1991Jan18.001557.25918@cs.ubc.ca> buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan) writes: >We ran into an interesting problem here, I think it points out a bug but >I don't know wether to point the finger at sgi or at sun. This is the >scenario. > >IRIX 3.3.1 exports a file system. SPARC1 runing SUNOS 4.1 imports. > >On the sun sparcstation I get the following weird interaction. > >chaplin [48] ~ % ls -l foo >-rw-r--r-- 1 buchanan 0 Jan 17 16:09 foo >chaplin [49] ~ % touch foo >chaplin [50] ~ % ls -l foo >-rw-r--r-- 1 buchanan 0 Dec 31 1969 foo > >(The wierdness is the date on the second listing of the file) >When this is done on a filesystem exported from a IRIX 3.2.1 system >the interaction is correct. This seems to be a problem that >came about during the upgrade to 3.3.1, however, we also upgraded the >sun around that time so it is possible that the problem lies with >that other company. This also happens here under 3.3.2.. VERY annoying when sharing source between machines.. Is this a known problem and/or is there a fix? Trev -- ______________________________________/Through the darkness, the future past, Trevor Paquette ICBM:51'03"N/114'05"W|The magician longs to see. {ubc-cs,utai,alberta}!calgary!paquette|One chants out, between two worlds, paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca |"Fire, walk with me."