Pb getwd on afs linux
Gerald Britton
gbritton at mit.edu
Tue Jan 19 15:39:17 CET 1999
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Because that works by inode number. The problem being that AFS uses a set
> of four 32-bit values, which have to be hashed into a single 32-bit value;
> the result is *not* guaranteed to be unique, so ugly things can happen with
> programs that rely on unique inode numbers. Such as pwd, and such as
> Solaris's ld.so which goes bonkers if two shared libraries on AFS hash to
> the same inode number....
If this is the case, how does Transarc AFS deal with it? You never run into
this problem using their AFS client.
-- Gerald
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