The original posting was :
>One of my user has discovered the following problem on a Digital Unix 3.0
>computer.
>
>He has two files f1 and f2 and issues the command :
>
>cat f1 f2 > f1
>the answer is immediate :
>
>cat: input t1 is output
>
>but with the command :
>
>cat f2 f1 > f1
>there is no answer and when he uses CTRL-C he sees that there is a RECURSIVE
>concatenation of the file f1 to itself.
>
>The users's directory is on a NFS mounted file system and the server is an
>Ultrix 4.4 computer.
>
>I've tried the same commands on a local filesystem and there is no problem. So
>it seems that NFS has an influence on the bug in 'cat'.
As previously indicated the problem is not in the 'cat' command but in the
interaction NFS V3/V2. I've used a Sun, mounted a Sun partition on my Alpha,
issued a cd command to this nfs mounted filesystem and the problem is still
there. The Sun runs NFS V2.
As answered by somebody the problem is no more there with 2 NFS V3 computers.
Thanks to everybody for the answers.
Daniel
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