Subject: Re: Lock Daemon?
To: Hacksaw <hacksaw@venus.gsd.harvard.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/23/1996 17:56:48
On Mon, 23 Sep 96 20:16:01 EDT 
 hacksaw@venus.gsd.harvard.edu (Hacksaw) wrote:

 > When I hook up the Mac Powerbook to the NetBSD 1.1 box via NFS, it
 > works fine, but complains about a lack of lockd. I notice that it
 > doesn't seem to be in residence anywhere. Is something else supposed
 > to do this job?

NetBSD does not yet have a lock daemon.  To properly support it, the
kernel must have a fully functional krpc subsystem so that it too may
use the lock daemon.  Unfortunately, this simply hasn't been implemented
yet.

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