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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Yves Lepage wrote:

> Hi all,
> - NFS on FreeBSD does not support file locking. Maybe it will in the future
>   but it probably won't inter-operate with Sun's.

you need to distinguish two things. 
1) It is true that 
   NFS on freebsd does not have a 'lock' protocol compatible with Sun's.
2) BUT: last time I tried it, sun's lockd etc. didn't work all that well
   either. and they never have. Not for lack of trying on sun's part, 
   it is a hard problem, esp. in a stateless system such as nfs.

ron