rename bug in arla

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at kf8nh.apk.net
Sat Nov 14 00:34:39 CET 1998


In message <364C75E8.DA9B363E at netscape.com>, Chuck Lever writes:
+-----
| however, i found a logic bug in arlad's rename operation.  in
| arlad/inter.c, the logic first creates the entry for the new name in the
| cached copy of the new directory, then deletes the old one.  the problem
| occurs if an entry with the new name already exists.  in this case,
+--->8

You might take a look at some of H.J. Lu's knfsd diffs; IIRC this same bug 
was recently fixed in knfsd.

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