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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:29:54 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Conrad Minshall <conrad@apple.com>, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@dustdevil.waterspout.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca
Subject:   Re: Ok, that's it, enough is enough! (rpc.lockd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300928050.325-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991129155217.C2999@spirit.jaded.net>

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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote:

> 
> | >I'm fairly certain that rpc.lockd is included with Darwin from Apple,
> | >I've not closely compared it to what we have in -STABLE or -CURRENT
> | >to see if it actually works.
> | 
> | It doesn't, sorry...  if someone gets a *BSD version of NFS locking operating
> | I'd help see it into Darwin.
> | 
> | BTW, is anyone working on NFS Version 4 for BSD?  Rick?
> 
> A few of us talked about this on IRC a few weeks ago and it was decided that
> when/if we implement NFSv4 it would have to be from scratch.  A pretty big
> task.  

I reviewed the NFSv4 specs recently and came to the same conclusion. To do
it right will be quite a bit of work and would include a decent kernel
side implementation of rpc and gssapi.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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