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From: buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: touching a sgi file from a sun
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.001557.25918@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 18 Jan 91 00:15:57 GMT
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We ran into an interesting problem here, I think it points out a bug but
I don't know wether to point the finger at sgi or at sun.  This is the
scenario. 

IRIX 3.3.1 exports a file system.  SPARC1 runing SUNOS 4.1 imports.

On the sun sparcstation I get the following weird interaction.

chaplin [48] ~ % ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--  1 buchanan        0 Jan 17 16:09 foo
chaplin [49] ~ % touch foo
chaplin [50] ~ % ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--  1 buchanan        0 Dec 31  1969 foo

(The wierdness is the date on the second listing of the file)
When this is done on a filesystem exported from a IRIX 3.2.1 system
the interaction is correct.  This seems to be a problem that
came about during the upgrade to 3.3.1, however, we also upgraded the
sun around that time so it is possible that the problem lies with
that other company.

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