NFS stale file handle
when a program uses the sequence:
open()
unlink()
write()
on a file that's on a nfs filesystem.
The error can be seen when using "mail" or "ypbind"
on a diskless client. Both programs use the command
sequence shown above to create a lock file in /tmp.
(ypbind can be started with "-ipc" to prevent this
error.) I think it's an error with nfs:
As long as a process has an open file handle it
should not be possible to really unlink the file.
That's how local file systems behave.
What's your opinion?
Christoph Trautwein