Re: server woes due to file permissions


Subject: Re: server woes due to file permissions
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Wed Sep 22 1993 - 16:45:21 EDT


> From: "Erdwing Coronado" <coronado@p53.cancer.med.umich.edu>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu

> What I have seen is that Macs running
> Appleshare prior to version 3.5 are incredibly slow (they might take
> 20 minutes to write a single 2KB file).

> Appleshare 3.5 (and Appletalk 58.x) cures this particular problem.

This is a bug in netatalk's atp implementation. The release packets
are too long (the same size as the last response packet). Older
version of AppleTalk drop these releases, causing *very* slow
performance.

Here's the patch:

*** netatalk-1.3b2/libatalk/atp/atp_rsel.c- Tue Aug 10 13:08:36 1993
--- netatalk-1.3b2/libatalk/atp/atp_rsel.c Wed Aug 25 21:39:07 1993
***************
*** 280,289 ****
  #endif EBUG
  
      if ( !ah->atph_rbitmap && ( req_hdr.atphd_ctrlinfo & ATP_XO )) {
! /* successful completion - send release */
          req_hdr.atphd_ctrlinfo = ATP_TREL;
          bcopy( (char *)&req_hdr, ah->atph_reqpkt->atpbuf_info.atpbuf_data + 1,
              sizeof( struct atphdr ));
  #ifdef EBUG
          printf( "<%d> sending TREL", getpid() );
          bprint( ah->atph_reqpkt->atpbuf_info.atpbuf_data,
--- 280,293 ----
  #endif EBUG
  
      if ( !ah->atph_rbitmap && ( req_hdr.atphd_ctrlinfo & ATP_XO )) {
! /*
! * successful completion - send release
! * the release consists of DDP type byte + ATP header + 4 user bytes
! */
          req_hdr.atphd_ctrlinfo = ATP_TREL;
          bcopy( (char *)&req_hdr, ah->atph_reqpkt->atpbuf_info.atpbuf_data + 1,
              sizeof( struct atphdr ));
+ ah->atph_reqpkt->atpbuf_dlen = sizeof( struct atphdr ) + 5;
  #ifdef EBUG
          printf( "<%d> sending TREL", getpid() );
          bprint( ah->atph_reqpkt->atpbuf_info.atpbuf_data,

> I have a similar setup and have noticed the permission problem as well.
> Thanks for the explanation.

Um, I don't think the explanation is too correct. I'll respond to the
original, in a few.

:wes



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