Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC nfs crashes sun 4.03?
Message-ID: <3766@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 18:17:09 GMT
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>This is because the SUN knows better....

In particular, SunOS has, since 3.0 if I remember correctly, rejected,
on the client side, any attempt to open a directory over NFS.

Methinks the NFS's on S5/386 should do so as well, the prevalence of
crappy programs that still open and read directories themselves rather
than going through the directory library nonwithstanding; those programs
are in for a rude surprise if the NFS server 1) doesn't reject attempts
to read from a directory over the wire and 2) doesn't have the same
directory format *AND* the same byte order as the client, and it's time
they were hit upside the head and fixed (they're going to fail miserably
in S5R4 even on local file systems, if the local file system is UFS
rather than S5FS; 4.[23]BSD directory entries do *not* look like V7
directory entries!).