Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:57:03 -0500 
>  "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Why are we doing stuff like using user space locks? Aren't things like
>  > O_EXCL or flock more sensible in the modern world? I know I must be
>  > missing something...
> 
> Because they don't necessarily work for shared filesystems or remote
> filesystems, for one...

Since when are device files shared or remote? I mean, in NFS land, you
can have your device nodes mounted from a remote system, but they
reference devices on the local machine, not on the remote machine...

Perry