From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 03:26:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA22188 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 03:26:23 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA22179 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 03:26:19 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA02980; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:09:39 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507171039.UAA02980@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Software compatibilities To: didier@omnix.fr.org (Didier Derny) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:09:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507170709.JAA27028@zapata.omnix.fr.org> from "Didier Derny" at Jul 17, 95 09:09:24 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 915 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Didier Derny stands accused of saying: > > Didier Derny stands accused of saying: > > > are these softwares working with FreeBSD 2.0.5 > > > > > - NFS locks Impossible due to Sun copyright > I wonder if it would be a hard work to rewrite the NFS lock code for > freeBSD. Specia for the server code. Obviously I didn't explain it well enough : Sun refuse to release the specifications for their locking protocol, and change it on a regular basis. Reverse-engineering it would be extremely difficult. > | Didier Derny | -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[