Re: NFSCTL_LOCKD (0x10000) unimplemented? (2.4.0-test5-pre4)

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 07:25:20 EST


ok, my conclusion is - /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd is obsolete (why still in
nfs-utils? maybe for those who still use old 2.2.x kernels...) and the
stuff in fs/lockd/*.c just does the job, i.e. the lockd kernel thread.

Is this correct?

Regards,
Tigran

 On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Looking at nfs-utils-0.1.9.1/support/nfs/lockdsvc.c:lockdsvc() function I
> see that it makes nfsservctl(2) system call with cmd=NFSCTL_LOCKD
> (0x10000) and looking at the kernel side in
> fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:handle_sys_nfsservctl() I see that it is unimplemented
> and so starting /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd rightly returns EINVAL.
>
> Is someone working on implementing it or does one have to start from
> scratch today?
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
>

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