Strange NFS behaviour under 4.1

[Chris Johnson]

In article <1990Oct26.221737.18973 at rice.edu> ehrlich at psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>
>On a number of occasions on assorted systems (sun4, sun4c, sun3) all
>running SunOS 4.1 strange NFS happening have been observed.
>
>1) Files that are symbolic links are not listed as such.  I.E. ls -lF does
>   not show 'l' but 'd' as the first character on the line.

Dan mentions some other problems.  I have not even seen the above problem,
but it just reminded me of a recent horrifying experience while I was
dialed into a customer system cleaning things up and moving things around
in preparation for a reconfiguration.  I used "rm" to remove a symbolic
link on a diskless client which pointed to an NFS mounted directory.  I
did a few other things and then returned to the server, from where I was
rlogin'd, and tried to do a "ps".  Woops, no such command.  Gack!  Turns
out my little symbolic link removal on the client had instead removed
EVERYTHING in the server's directory.  That directory just happened to be
/usr/kvm.

Maybe there is something weird with NFS and symbolic links on 4.1.  But
I'm not sure I want to test it out!  I'm afraid of what might be removed
next. :-)

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