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Re: fake lockd?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Sun Mar 10 05:26:24 1996
From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 9 Mar 1996 19:28:39 +0300
eichin@mit.EDU wrote:
: I serve NFS off of a linux box to a 2 sun3s, a sunos-sun4, and a
: laptop. I recently found a problem from the Sunos machine - certain
: code I'm working with uses fcntl() file locking, which hangs "forever"
: attempting to talk to the linux box. Has anyone written either
: 1) a lockd that "works" (nah, sun hasn't even done that :-)
: 2) a lockd that returns success for every call? (I'm not 100%
: sure this will do the right thing, but it's worth a try.)
You can look there:
> From: grothe@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de (Holger Grothe)
> Olaf (Kirch) the author of the Linux Network Admin guide has written
> a lockd (BETA software). It can be found on ftp.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de
> in /pub/linux/okir/dontuse as lockd-0.4a.tar.gz.
It was declared as BETA (or even pre-ALPHA),
but it works for me for 2 weeks without crashes.
Thanks to Olaf Kirch!
Alexey Kuznetsov.
