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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