Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>    Here's a general update on this bug report to -current.  It took all day
>    but I was finally able to reproduce Andrew's bug.
>
>    You guys are going to *love* this.
>
>    NFS uses the kernel 'boottime' structure to generate its version id.
>    Now normally you might believe that this structure, once set, will
>    never change.  The authors of NFS certainly make that assumption!

Is this another case of "lets assume the time of day is a random number" or
is there any underlying assumption about time in this ?

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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