"Charles M. Hannum" sez:
/*
 * 
 * So I noticed something odd while installing a pkg (specifically xpm)
 * with /usr/pkgsrc in NFS...
 * 
 * ===>  Registering installation for xpm-3.4k
 * grep: /u1/usr/pkgsrc/graphics/xpm/files/CVS: Operation not permitted
 * grep: /u1/usr/pkgsrc/graphics/xpm/pkg/CVS: Operation not permitted
 * 
 * This seems Wrong.

Why so?  You can't open() an NFS'd directory, and if you're doing

	grep $pat $pkg/files/* $pkg/pkg/*

and there's a CVS directory, AND it's on NFS, you can expect those
kinds of messages to show up.  NFS protocol apparently requires the
use of NFS_OPENDIR (or its moral equivalent, whatever it's called)
across RPC; if you try to use NFS_OPEN on a directory, the NFS server
will return EPERM.

I've been running into this one since the OLD SunOS days (3.x).

It is interesting to note that open() will still work on a local
directory; probably because there is no ufs_opendir() in the kernel
-- it's still implemented as wrappers around open() locally; I believe
(I'm not looking at my tree right now) that nfs_open() and nfs_opendir()
[or their moral equivalents] _are_ implemented in the kernel.

 * 
 */





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