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O_EXCL over NFS: Don't!!! (Repost in HTML)O_EXCL over NFS: Don't!!! (Repost in HTML)Posted Sep 27, 2007 22:39 UTC (Thu) by cras (guest, #7000)In reply to: O_EXCL over NFS: Don't!!! (Repost in HTML) by AnswerGuy Parent article: Exploiting symlinks and tmpfiles
I've read hearsay that it's supposed to work under NFSv3 ... but I haven't seen a convincing, credible statement to that effect. My NFS tester shows that it at least appears to work with Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-July/024102.html. Looking at Linux 2.6 sources it doesn't look like it tries to implement a racy O_EXCL check in client side (fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c nfs3_proc_create()), so the test's results should be correct. I don't know if other OSes do that. I guess it would be nice to have a better O_EXCL tester which tries to catch race conditions.
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