Re: Problems in 1.3.93

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 22 Apr 1996 13:52:24 +0100 (BST)

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> There really shouldn't be files laying around with r-S group permissions,
> unless you really mean it. Additionally the whole issue of locks and NFS
> needs to be resolved - I know Olaf Kirch started looking at lockd. I'm
> tempted to pay X/Open the money they want for the standard and start looking
> at it myself.

Youve missed the problem totally. Mark a file mandatory locking, lock it
(on the server), ask for it remotely - nfsd blocks. Goodbye nfs server.

Ditto for backups and many other programs.

Alan

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