NFS locking revisited

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Wed Mar 5 01:22:45 PST 2008


According to Doug Rabson:
> As part of this work, I have augmented the fcntl flock structure to include 
> an indication of which remote system owns the lock and I have added some 
> infrastructure to support asynchronous locking (not currently exposed to 
> userland but required for the NLM). I have also ported the much of the 
> userland sunrpc code to run in the kernel environment to make life easier 
> (in my opinion, this is how all our NFS code should have been done from the 
> start).

Awesome work, Doug, thanks!
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