Status: R

Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu> writes:

>I saw this, and I've been wondering. The answer was that we don't ship
>with a statd. But what is /usr/sbin/rpc.statd? It comes up when you do a
>man on statd. ??

Statd and rpc.statd are different names for the same facility. Are you
wondering what it's good for?  Although the man page doesn't say so,
its reason for existence is to make the NFS file locking protocol work
over server or client bounces. NetBSD provides partial support for NFS
file locking.