From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 27 11:58:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA25997 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 11:58:17 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA25991 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 11:58:11 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12070; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 14:57:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 14:57:32 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501271957.AA12070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: file locking over NFS In-Reply-To: <9501270821.AA09807@mmra1.ms.philips.nl> References: <9501270821.AA09807@mmra1.ms.philips.nl> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < I'm afraid I lost track on this subject: what's the current state of > things on file locking on NFS mounted directories? Both with FreeBSD > as a client (and e.g. a sun as server), and FreeBSD as a server. Can't be done until someone actually implements the Sun lockd protocol. (At this point, Terry will beging flaming endlessly about implementation details of Sun's version.) There are sources (like one of the X/Open books) which claim to define the protocol, but I have not heard of someone yet successfully implementing something that completely interoperates with Sun hosts. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant