NFSD error: dentry not negative!

[G. Allen Morris III]

>>>Justin Hahn said:
 > I'm getting a LOT of the following sorts of errors while I'm
 > downloading stuff off of gnome CVS. The server is 2.2.0pre8, with the
 > knfs-981204 package. I've never seen this particular error before,
 > anyone know if it's harmful?

Linux of glibc tests if a file/dir exsits before it trys to create
one.  SunOS does not.  You will see the

   nfsd_create: dentry foo/bar not negative

message everytime to try to create a file/directory that already
exists using these clients.

   I hope to fix this soon.

	  Allen

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       G. Allen Morris III


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