[OpenAFS] OpenAFS for Windows - 1.3.72 release and Outstanding Projects Report

Rainer Toebbicke rtb@pclella.cern.ch
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:34:39 +0200


Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> The most serious bugs fixed by the release include:
> 
>  * the "use once and discard" rpc connection bug.  This bug could
>    cause the Windows client to negotiate thousands of new rpc
>    connections an hour with the AFS file servers.  The rate
>    of new rpc connections can crash all OpenAFS file servers
>    prior to 1.2.12/1.3.72.
> 

What actually is the delta (or are the deltas) for the fix in the 
fileserver code, given that 1.2.12 is not (yet?) released?

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