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...nderstandably, the underlying issue is with the protocol; but still you''d think 6 years would be enough time to implement a reasonable workaround. They didn''t fix this in the NFS 4 spec (why?), but there''s some hope on the distant horizon, the NFS 4.1 spec introduces the EXCLUSIVE4_1 create which will allow an exclusive create to be done atomically rather than as two separate operations. Of course, Solaris would need to support NFS 4.1 (no timeline available) and all clients of interest would need to do so as well (again no timeline available), but that''s not likely to...