Bug#508867: stale nfs filehandle

[Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org>]

Hmmm, Trond reckons this race condition always has existed in the kernel,
implying that since userland can work around it, it should:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557

Would it be possible to, upon an ESTALE return result from the acccess()
call, to open() the file instead, and then perform an access() if indeed
the latter is then still necessary?  That might be sufficient to
invalidate the cache (since catting the Xauthority file or running xauth
list seems to invalidate the cache).


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TimC
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