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From: sas@pyrps5 (Scott Schoenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: WHat is "Stale NFS handle"?
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Date: 20 Jan 89 21:31:22 GMT
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In article <292@heurikon.UUCP> sadler@heurikon.UUCP (Jon Sadler) writes:
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>     For example, I create a file called /export/foo, give full world permi-
>sions to it.  Whenever I open this file on a NFS client machine, a "file-
>handle" (a local structure containing info on the file ranging from the current
>position in the file, to the machine it lives on, etc.) is created in-core (in

The current position in the file is *not* encoded into the file handle in
the Sun NFS version 2 implementation.  The file handle is only used to
uniquely identify a file to the server -- not the parameters to be used
in its access.

sas
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