Re: 2.4.19 NFS file perms

[Richard Zidlicky]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:07:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 16:50, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >>>>> " " == Richard Zidlicky <[e-mail]> writes:
> > 
> >      > Hi, on an NFS mounted fs, executing as root I see this:
> > 
> >      > read(4, 0xefffe4cb, 1) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
> > 
> >      > glibc crashes in fgets because it doesn't expect the problem
> >      > after the file has been successfully opened and mapped.. who is
> >      > at fault here?
> > 
> > The 'soft' mount option perhaps?

no, automount entry is
nfsr            -rw,noatime                     rz:/usr/m68kroot

> If glibc crashes because of an unmap you are I suspect running a gcc 2.3
> snapshot with the buggy and bogus mmap stdio option. If so turn it off
> before it does any more harm.

thanks, this seems to be one part of the solution - it is a glibc snapshot 
from rawhide, somewhat aged in the meantime.
I am still surprised that NFS returns such strange error instead of
EACCESS but that is probably bad interaction with the old NFS server.

Richard
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