RE: NFS Client patch

[Craig Soules]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, J. Richard Sladkey wrote:
> This interpretation isn't useful.  If a second client modifies the
> directory while the first client is reading a directory, the first
> client has no way of knowing that its cookie is now invalid, yet it
> clearly will be invalid if the server's cookies are invalid after
> any directory modifying operation.

I believe that the behavior in this case is still undetermanistic.  More 
generically, if one person is writing to a file and another is reading, it
is unclear what that person will get at all.

Craig