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From: christos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christos S. Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: NFS 2.2 bombs
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Date: 15 Jun 91 05:31:51 GMT
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In article <2694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
>
>Does this mean that if I avoid csh scripts, then NFS2.2 should be
>usable? (I don't mean good - just *usable* ;-/) - I was just getting
>excited about the prospect of a usable version of NFS when all these
>horror stories started appearing... might I actually dare to use
>NFS2.2?

I think that the root of the problem is vfork() and it manifests itself
when using csh. If you can avoid using vfork()....

christos
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