[Info-vax] Interesting NFS bug...

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00a6591e$0$1587$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> OS-X mounted  disk via NFS on VMS (VMS acts as NFS server).
> 
> ditto used to copy files tro the OS-X disk.
> 
> the last bit of index.html from VMS:
> 
> 
> In other words, the NFS server on VMS filled data beyond the end of file
> with text from another file. So much for VMS file system security.

   Do you have file hioghwater marking turned on?  The NFS server should
   honor this, if it does not, then maybe you're running the wrong IP
   stack.
 
> 
> However, one cannot copy a whole directory tree this way. Backup creates
> files on the other system with file extensions as part of file name. so
> instead of "myimage.jpg" you have "myimage.jpg;3"

   Have you tried copy [source...]*.*;* dest:  ?