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Re: Release workaround for SGI AFS lossage?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Nov 28 12:56:34 1998

To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:35:17 EST."
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:56:20 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> That seems really optimistic to me. I admit that I'm no AFS guru,
> but do we have any reason at all to believe that the behavior with
> no tokens will be different than the behavior with expired tokens?

Well, I can't really claim to understand the code paths in question,
but I think there's a decent chance.  It's hard to tell when you have
a bug.  If not, we back out the elmer patch and we're back where we
started.

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