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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:23:08 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS and file-locking
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In the last episode (Mar 09), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote:
> > 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.

FWIW, the breakage is one-way.  A Linux client can lock files on a
FreeBSD server, but a Linux server cannot handle a FreeBSD client's
lock request.

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	Dan Nelson
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