Re: [Patch] lockd: remove hardcoded maximum NLM cookie length

[Greg Banks]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:51:50PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> At the moment, the NLM cookie length is fixed to 8 bytes, while 1024 is
> the theoretical maximum. FreeBSD uses 16 bytes, Mac OS X uses 20 bytes.
> Therefore we need to make the length dynamic (which I set to 32 bytes).

MacOS X has used 8 byte cookies since 10.3.4, so FreeBSD is the only
known interop issue.

Greg.
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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
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