Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:24:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Jason M. Leonard" <fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: NFS and file-locking Message-ID: <20040309222400.GA75180@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040309170935.Y78249@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> References: <20040309215001.GA28538@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <20040309220309.GA74477@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040309170935.Y78249@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:19:42PM -0500, Jason M. Leonard wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > 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. >=20 > rpc.lockd support is not entirely stable; see PR bin/61718. >=20 > I am always able to force the described problem to happen between two > 5.2.x machines by using the file locking test from the > /usr/ports/mail/procmail installation. When it asks for additional > locations to test file locking, give it a remote NFS destination and watch > things break. Any reason this important test case is not listed in the PR? ;-) Kris --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFATkQAWry0BWjoQKURAs8cAJ9GlUWJFz3p63/4HUr7y6hRF15OZgCg6Ps2 inxQqYCi+uUmWWMTyjYagxo= =IA1X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--
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