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From: ray@sslvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Errors that can't happen !
Message-ID: <545@ssl-macc.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 04:47:03 EST
Article-I.D.: ssl-macc.545
Posted: Mon Apr  6 04:47:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 05:58:58 EST
References: <535@ssl-macc.co.uk> <10679@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: ray@ssl-macc.co.uk (Ray Saxton)
Organization: Software Sciences Ltd, Macclesfield, UK
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In article <10679@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> hedrick@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>A user reported a error
>	rfs_read: attempt to read from non-file
>
>from his Sun.  I saw that once when somebody tried to open a directory
>over NFS and read it like a file, instead of using readdir.  Note that

this is in fact the case. It occurs when an illegal file is read 
e.g. cat mydir 

and  mydir is an nfs "file" and you have mixed 2.X 3.X operating systems. 

	rgds ray

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