>Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:37:01 -0800
>From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
>
> [...]
>Netbsd doesnt really have a lockd.
>there is a daemon which silently discards lockd requests, for
>binary-emulation reasons -- some vendor-native software (HP-UX(?))
>wont run unless it gets lockd responses. No locking is actually done.
> [...]

Would it be particularly difficult to implement the actual locking?
I'm just wondering why it hasn't been done...is there a technical
reason, or is it just because no one has volunteered to write the code?

I'm not volunteering (yet), but it sounds interesting...

cheers,
entropy

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entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.