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Re: Heads up! AFS problem with IRIX 6.5.7 is of significant impact.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu May 4 18:25:12 2000
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, owls@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU,
brianb@sgi.com, jasonuhl@csd.sgi.com, rar@MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 18:25:01 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
I believe we've figured out the problem. IRIX is making a call into
filesystem-dependent code, which may not be implemented; if not, a
specific error code is expected back, in which case it falls back to
a different call. The call is apparently not implemented in our version
of AFS, but a different error code is returned, causing the IRIX routine
to error out. A comment in the AFS source indicates this is intentional,
because they do not want the fallback function to be called.
It is not immediately obvious how to fix this. I can provide more details
to anyone interested.
Bob
