On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Chris Jones writes:
> > How difficult/complicated is the locking protocol?
> 
> It is undocumented, to begin with.

Well, not quite, look at

	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629799/toc.htm

This includes the NLM protocols as well as NFS & mount. This, together
with the patches Terry Lambert made available a while ago, makes
implementing a fully functional lockd possible. It's not particularly
hard, someone just needs to actually have the patience and time to do it.

- Frank