Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-06 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
First of all, thanks a lot for the clarification (and for all the work on linux/debian!). On 4 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using

dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
Hi, Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of them used the wrong function to implement that, since the commonly used

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote: On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS locking among linux and other

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) Yep. that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of