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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:03:09 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dominik Epple <epple@tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it)
> about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and
> different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux).

FreeBSD 5 has working NFS locking (rpc.lockd) support.  Linux is
broken and will not interoperate with FreeBSD unless you apply the
patch in PR kern/56461.

Kris

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