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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SunOS -> FreeBSD lockf() problems Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 00:12:54 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <814407174.20210@pencotts.demon.co.uk> References: <TAROH.95Oct23033356@kani.cc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-URL: news:TAROH.95Oct23033356@kani.cc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii taroh@kani.cc.kanagawa-u.ac.jp (Taroh Sasaki 101499) wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD machines and one of them is a /var/mail > file server through NFS. From other FreeBSD machines, > lockf() works well in MH (with compile option LOCKF), > but a Sun SPARC fails. Isn't there compatibility between > FreeBSD (2.1.0-951005-SNAP) and SunOS (4.1.3) lockf()s? > And should we give up locking from SunOS client? FreeBSD does not currently support NFS file locking - so if your application allows you to disable it safely, then you should do so. I have been working on the server end of file locking, but due to pressure of work I am unlikely to do much more on it before Christmas. Progress so far is a complete but hardly tested rpc.statd, and an empty shell of rpc.lockd (that just says "yes" to all requests!). If anybody wants the pieces so far to hack at, please let me know. Andrew Gordon.