Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!tools!ws From: ws@tools.uucp (Wolfgang Solfrank) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: NFS protocaool changes after SunOS 4.0 Message-ID: Date: 11 Aug 90 18:22:27 GMT References: <1990Aug10.040110.26559@swbatl.sbc.com> Sender: news@tools.UUCP Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, W.-Germany Lines: 18 In-reply-to: dbz@swbatl.sbc.com's message of 10 Aug 90 04:01:10 GMT I quote from RFC 1094: 2.2.3. Set File Attributes ... The "attributes" argument contains fields which are either -1 or are the new value for the attributes of "file". and 2.3.6. sattr ... A value of -1 indicates a field that should be ignored. But beware, there is a note in 2.2.3: Note: The use of -1 to indicate an unused field in "attributes" is changed in the next version of the protocol. -- ws@tools.uucp (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) +49-228-230088