On Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:30:21 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > 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...

I think the point of this is to have a sufficiently generic locking
mchanism that Just Works no matter where you go.

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