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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NFS locking in FreeBSD 1.0e Date: 20 Feb 1994 21:08:52 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2k8jh4$n84@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <16F6363A8S85.BORMANN@purccvm.bitnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: lockf(), flock(), mh In article <16F6363A8S85.BORMANN@purccvm.bitnet>, Bill Bormann <BORMANN@PURCCVM.BITNET> wrote: >My question is quite simply, do I need to worry about file locking for >nfs mounted file systems? If two processes can write to the same mail file, then it is a big issue. File-locking under NFS is non-trivial to write, and I know of no freely available version of lockd for any operating system. Nate k -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.