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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
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Message-ID: <2k8jh4$n84@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <16F6363A8S85.BORMANN@purccvm.bitnet>
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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
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