On Mon, 8 Jan 1996 23:01:53 +1030 (CST) 
 michael smith <miff@spam.frisbee.net.au> wrote:

 > The FreeBSD mountd believes this to be the case and requires patching
 > to allow NFS mounts of files.  The NetBSD one doesn't (odd, since they're
 > both based on the Guelph code).

Originally, yes.  There have been several changes to NetBSD's moutnd since...

 > The fix is trivial; if anyone wants the details they should pester me
 > as I'll have to unpack the NetBSD mountd code to diff it.

Actually, there's a call to stat() ... it checks for S_IDIR ... simply 
add a check for S_ISREG, too.

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