Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch?

Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn at garlic.com
Wed Sep 10 10:38:02 EDT 2003


At 08:14 AM 9/10/2003 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>entry. We ran into a problem with doing consistent database updates over 
>NFS (network filesystem) because while NFS advertises itself as item 
>potent, most client implementations have this 8k cache that can be stale.

fingers typing w/o brain syncronized ... it should have been idempotent not 
item potent.
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler    http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Internet trivia 20th anv http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
  


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