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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS4 crack
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:52:32 -0400
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to den 22.09.2005 Klokka 13:38 (-0400) skreiv Peter Staubach:
> It seems to me that a "system call" could implemented which would allow
> a file to be "opened" via the file handle.

Sure, but open alone isn't sufficient. A lot (most?) of the operations
involving filehandles are acting on directories.

Imagine if someone renames a directory on the server while the NFS
server is in the middle of an unlink() operation, for instance.

Cheers,
  Trond