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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Reading directories
Keywords: heterogeneity, NFS
Message-ID: <298@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 17:20:53 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The solution to that problem is to fix the broken programs, not to
>kludge the NFS implementation by preventing programs from reading the
>directory. In an ideal world, all the programs that need to know the
>contents of a directory would use the "portable directory routines".

The reason why the NFS implementation was kludged was to *catch* the
broken programs in question.  The 2.0 NFS implementation allowed it.