Subject: Re: Emulations and cookies
To: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/08/1995 19:34:07
> The NFS v2 protocol includes directory cookies in the on-the-wire
> protocol. Can you get hold of these and somehow pass them up, or do
> you need to do some extra local interpretation to satisfy the
> emulation needs?
Reading the cookies off the wire isn't a problem; getting them to the
application is, due to the structure of the NFS client code. I think
it's quite likely that someone could fix this remaining bug in the
month between code freeze and release; it's just a little too
difficult for before then.