[OpenAFS] Weird issue with @sys on RH9 and RHEL3 systems with OpenAFS 1.2.10

[Renata Maria Dart]

Hi, the following @sys problem occurs on RedHat 9 and RHEL 3 systems
under OpenAFS 1.2.10.  It is not clear to us whether this is a 
RedHat problem or an OpenAFS issue, so I thought I would post to
the list see what you think...

If there is a subdirectory i386_linux24 in AFS space, both RH9 and 
RHEL3 systems get confused if you try to cd @sys.  An ls @sys works
fine, and if the @sys subdirectory is a link you can cd to it with
no problem.  The following was done on a RHEL 3 machine named noric04
running OpenAFS 1.2.10.  First an attempt to cd @sys where @sys is
not a link:

renata@noric04 $ 9:21 fs sysname
Current sysname list is 'i386_rhel30' 'i386_linux24'
renata@noric04 $ 9:21 cd /afs/slac/package/mozilla/1.4/1.4
renata@noric04 $ 9:21 
renata@noric04 $ 9:21 ls
i386_linux24/  sun4x_58/  sun4x_59@
renata@noric04 $ 9:22 ls i386_linux24
mozilla/
renata@noric04 $ 9:22 ls @sys
mozilla/
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 cd @sys
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 pwd
pwd: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 ls
ls: .: Stale NFS file handle
renata@noric04 $ 9:24 
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 cd ../i386_linux24
renata@noric04 $ 9:23 pwd
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/mozilla/1.4/1.4/i386_linux24


However, if i386_linux24 is a symlink, it won't be a problem

renata@noric04 $ 9:25 cd /afs/slac/package/globustools
renata@noric04 $ 9:25 
renata@noric04 $ 9:25 ls 
README.SLAC   arch1/  build/         i386_linux24@  sun4x_57@  sun4x_59@
README.SLAC~  arch2/  i386_linux22@  src/           sun4x_58@  vdt/
renata@noric04 $ 9:25 
renata@noric04 $ 9:25 ls -lad i386_linux24
lrwxr-xr-x    1 bbense   root            7 Oct  7  2002 i386_linux24 -> ./arch1/
renata@noric04 $ 9:26 
renata@noric04 $ 9:27 cd @sys
renata@noric04 $ 9:27 
renata@noric04 $ 9:27 pwd
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/globustools/arch1
renata@noric04 $ 9:27 
renata@noric04 $ 9:27 ls
GLOBUS_LICENSE  etc/      lib/      man/   setup/  tmp/
bin/            include/  libexec/  sbin/  share/  var/

RedHat 7.2 systems don't have this problem.

Thanks,

Renata







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