[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Breaking callbacks on unlink

[Russ Allbery]

Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> writes:

> If the only reason for keeping this around is to keep the 'sometimes
> works' behavior working sometimes, should I take it that making this
> behavior runtime configurable is not out of the question?

Runtime configuration is usually the worst of all available options.

> Or are you/others of the opinion that this should be considered part of
> the protocol semantics that should not be changed? i.e., if the AFS
> protocol were documented, what would be said wrt this?

I would default to documenting the semantics, given that they've existed
for years.  Is there a specific problem that you're trying to fix, or was
this just something you'd stumbled across?

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>