nfs locking between current and stable

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:14:57PM +1000, Rudolph Pereira wrote:
> Hello,
> I am attempting to get flock/file locking working between my -stable
> (updated ~19 may) nfs file server and -current desktop; the server is
> running lockd/statd, and both my mail client (mutt) and a simple perl
> program complain that files on the nfs server cannot be locked.

The client also needs to run lockd/statd.  Be aware that rpc.lockd in
4.x and earlier is a null implementation that does not actually
perform NFS file locking with the server, it just returns success to
the client.  A working lockd was implemented in 5.0.

Kris
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