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Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 08:03:34 +0000
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
From: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville)
Subject: Re: rpc.lockd ??
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At 4:55 pm 30/4/96, Terry Lambert wrote:

>I recently submitted all the kernel patches necessary for support
>of the rpc.lockd, with the exception of handle translation, which
>could be fudged in about 20 lines of code if you were willing to
>require the NFS server code to be statically compiled into the kernel.
>
>The main issues are all the state saving in the user space code
>(mostly nothing more than grunt-work: Andrew did most of the
>necessary support).
>
>I don't have a Sun system handy, so I can't do testing, unfortunately.
>
>Jordan was going to do the middle code for an OS class he's taking
>at Berkeley.

This sounds promising... Are the patches available?

Best Regards,

Robin.