On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:16:56PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
> Here is the current patch against 2.3.99-pre3, nothing coda related has
> changed since, so it applies clean. Al Viro already has had this patch
> for a while now, but it hasn't been merged with the main tree yet.

Thanks for this, but here is the way Coda behaves even with the
patch in the kernel:

owen 09:53:28> ll
total 2464
-rw-------   1 zlsiial  nogroup   2003456 Apr 23 08:02 coda.sdd
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup      7364 Apr 23 08:07 first121
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup      1251 Apr 21 21:07 first121.handout
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup     34464 Apr 23 07:51 first121.text
owen 09:53:29> cp -p ~/coda.sdd ~/first121* .
owen 09:53:46> ll
total 465
-rw-------   1 zlsiial  sys             0 Apr 24 04:58 coda.sdd
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  sys             0 Apr 24 04:59 first121
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  sys             0 Apr 21 21:07 first121.handout
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  sys             0 Apr 23 07:51 first121.text
wen 09:53:48> rm coda.sdd first121*
owen 09:54:07> cp -p ~/coda.sdd ~/first121* .
owen 09:54:13> ll
total 465
-rw-------   1 zlsiial  nogroup         0 Apr 24 04:58 coda.sdd
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup         0 Apr 24 04:59 first121
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup         0 Apr 21 21:07 first121.handout
-rw-rw-r--   1 zlsiial  nogroup         0 Apr 23 07:51 first121.text

Before I put the patches in, I could copy files successfully if they
didn't exist, but now I can't even do that.  Note that I've never
seen this problem with 2.2.14, only with 2.3.99-pre5.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc_at_mcc.ac.uk