Reading directories
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.UUCP
Tue Oct 25 03:20:53 AEST 1988
>The solution to that problem is to fix the broken programs, not to
>kludge the NFS implementation by preventing programs from reading the
>directory. In an ideal world, all the programs that need to know the
>contents of a directory would use the "portable directory routines".
The reason why the NFS implementation was kludged was to *catch* the
broken programs in question. The 2.0 NFS implementation allowed it.
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