Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
had to walk into mine and say:
> I think dirlen is supposed to be a calculation of the size of the
> struct dirent that the client will eventually synthesize from all
> of this, in order to ensure that the result synthesized by the client
> does not cross a 512 byte boundry. But if it is, it is being *very*
> conservative.
>
> I think this may simply be because different clients have different
> structural sizes for struct dirent. I am guess that the
> (6 * NFSX_UNSIGNED) is basically a NFS constant.
Okay. I committed the fix to the length calculation to -current and
-stable (I just love one-line patches that stop panics). I just got
done patching my NFS server machines and they all seem to get along
nicely with the SGI now. Now I can upgrade the other SGIs without
worrying about them clobbering my FreeBSD machines.
Hm. I wonder what would happen if the FreeBSD host was the client
and the SGI was the server.
-Bill
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