Re: NFS file locking?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 20:43:21 EST


> a) is it the belief of folks here that this should work?

NFSv2 doesnt have the needed semantics

> b) if performance isn't a big issue, is there any portable way to do
> locking over NFS with just files?

The classic way is to use link().
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