Bug 50690

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Description of problem:
on kernel 2.4 (not kernels 2.2.x) a when ls * on an nfs mount from an IRIX
export globing some times fails. 
egbend@joker - ~/python/network >ls -la
total 20
drwxrwxr-x    2 bend     animatio      123 Jul 26 14:41 ./
drwxrwxr-x    4 bend     animatio       85 Jul  9 13:11 ../
-rwxrw-r--    1 bend     animatio     2035 Jun  1 12:16 build.py*
-rwxrw-r--    1 bend     animatio     1682 Jun  1 16:14 builddhcp.py*
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio      206 Jun  1 16:14 datebase.py
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio     1416 Jul  6 16:13 failsafe_dhcpd.py
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio     1413 Jul  6 16:13 failsafe_dhcpd.py.bck
bend@joker - ~/python/network >ls -la *
-rwxrw-r--    1 bend     animatio     2035 Jun  1 12:16 build.py*
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio      206 Jun  1 16:14 datebase.py
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio     1416 Jul  6 16:13 failsafe_dhcpd.py
-rw-rw-r--    1 bend     animatio     1413 Jul  6 16:13 failsafe_dhcpd.py.bck




How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:

This is not reproducable on all of the of the mounts but when it does occur
on a mount it always does

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bend.au

Additional info:

this is not only on redhat i have sucessfully demonstrated the bug on
slackware 8.0

redhat base libc is libc 2.2.2
slcakware is             2.2.3