On Nov 11,  2:30pm, "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
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} Since when are device files shared or remote? I mean, in NFS land, you

     Since AT&T invented RFS (makes it kind of hard to use for
diskless systems).

} can have your device nodes mounted from a remote system, but they
} reference devices on the local machine, not on the remote machine...

     What about regular files?  NetBSD doesn't have lockd/statd.  Even
on systems that do, I've had problems, i.e. SunOS 4.x vs ULTRIX 3.x/4.x.

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