Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS

[Paul Eggert]

Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem here is the NFS *client*, isn't it? And I'm not sure this
> is really a bug of the NFS client, knowing the fact that NFS works
> asynchronously.

No, you're right, I don't see a bug in the GNU/Linux NFS client here.
The original workaround has to do with Mac OS X; see

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00359.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00368.html

and it's the workaround that is running afoul of the GNU/Linux NFS
client.  If we could get rid of the workaround somehow, we wouldn't
have a problem on GNU/Linux NFS.  (But I guess we would have a problem
on buggy MacOS platforms, either NFS client or NFS server I guess,
though I don't know the details.)