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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:10:49 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de>, Carsten Urbach <Carsten.Urbach@physik.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks? 
Message-ID:  <49217.976839049@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>  of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:54:54 PST." <20001214145454.I4589@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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> I would like to see it in both -current and -stable.

I think that would be wrong, at least given the current state of
the lockd stuff.

First off, as David himself points out, there are issues with this
code and we'd be well off dealing with those *before* committing it to
-stable.  I also don't think that this would be achieved simply by
having more eyes on it, as you intimate, but by actually having a
coherent set of code to work on and the Right Developers(tm) hacking
on it.  I agree with Bill Joy's assertion that all bugs are NOT
shallow through having enough eyes, as Linus likes to say, but through
having one or two really bright people practically killing themselves
to fix them.

We've also had working NFS lockd code in the BSD/OS tree on builder,
along with full permission to grab it, for some time now but that
hasn't made it happen because the right developers have yet to take
that active an interest.

- Jordan


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