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From: megauter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Marc E. Gauthier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS bug in Ultrix 3.1  (on DEC3100)
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.022044.19498@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 02:20:44 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In developing an NFS client implementation, I discovered a bug in NFS server
implementations under Ultrix (Ultrix-32 V3.1 (Rev. 11)).  The VAXen servers
kept crashing while testing my client, and I wondered why - it seems that any
time I refer to a file outside the filesystem I have mounted (either through an
unmounted mount point, or by giving absolute path names), the VAX panics and
reboots.  Although what I was doing was `improper' client behaviour since I
was giving pathnames for the server to parse, it still shouldn't crash the
server...  Anybody come upon this?

Is there a proper DEC contact point for sending such bug reports?
-Marc
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Marc E. Gauthier   megauthier@watcgl.waterloo.edu   University of Waterloo
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