On Feb 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > If the Unix CM is reading beyond the end of file as part of preparing a > chunk to be written, that sounds like a bug to me. The Windows CM never > reads data from the file server beyond the known EOF. If the file is > new, the file length is 0 and the client prepares the page locally > without file server interaction.
Agree, but . . . we really don't want to have functionality on the server that will allow malicious clients to read data they shouldn't be able to. We can say it's a client bug all we like, it's still the server handing out data it shouldn't._______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel