Patent ID: 8380662

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, via a processor of a client device, an indication of a parent process requesting access to a network file system (NFS) server, wherein the NFS server allows client devices to remotely mount file systems over a network and interact with remotely mounted file systems as though the remotely mounted file systems are mounted locally; creating from the parent process, at the client device, a child process having limited rights to access the NFS server; creating, via the child process, a file on the NFS server; reading, via the child process, a property of the file; synchronizing a local system time of the client device with a remote system time of the NFS server based on the property of the file; and in response to synchronization of the local system time and the remote system time: deleting, via the child process, the file on the NFS server; and terminating the child process at the client device.