Re: Clarifications: CVS Import Bug - Please Respond

[Derek Price]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> some odd race conditions with more than
> one user trying to create write locks in the same directory at the same
> time both believing they have obtained their exclusive lock.


IIRC, this one had to do with clients caching the state of a directory. 
Something like both clients would query the lock directory's existence
and if they had cached that it didn't exist, both would return a
successful status code to a program before they get the failure response
from the NFS server.

I've fixed that at least once (for running sanity.sh between two hosts)
by setting the dir-cache-time for my NFS client to 0.  On my Linux
client the options are acdirmin=0,acdirmax=0 and can be set separately
for each mount-point.

Regards,

Derek
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