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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS Works with DOS 5, A needed change to SUN's PCNFSD, Mac NFS
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Date: 13 Jan 91 20:04:18 GMT
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Quoth hhg1@GTE.COM (Hallett German) (in <10364@bunny.GTE.COM>):
#2. I am having a problem with Mac-NFS (See 3). Wollongong suggested that
#   SUN add an option to the PCNFSD server to set the attributes of a
#   file to be created.

Hallett obviously realizes this, but let me just emphasize that this
has absolutely nothing to do with PCNFSD... After all, if an NFS client
wishes to set the attributes of a remote file it can simply issue
RFS_GETTATTR and RFS_SETATTR RPCs. If TWG is in fact suggesting that
their VMS server needs to support additional over-the-wire mechanisms
above and beyond the set of services befined by the NFS protocol
spec, and that these services should somehow be integrated into
PCNFSD, I suggest that they're wrong: they should simply define (and publish)
an RPC spec for the service. The implementation details are secondary.

On the subject of PCNFSD enhancements, I'm still waiting for input (such
as the publication of the BWNFSD RPC which was discussed earlier). In
the X/Open PC Interworking Group we are considering our schedule for
revision of the (PC)NFS spec, and we need all the input (new PCNFSD's,
Mac stuff, etc. etc.) as soon as possible. (I am speaking here as a
member of the WG, not _for_ the WG.)

Geoff

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
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