Re: lockd does not work as expected

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:58:25 -0500 (EST)


Trond Myklebust writes:

> Solaris does indeed seem to support flock over NFS, but I dunno how
> they solve the problem of a child process inheriting the lock. NLM was
> not designed with 'flock' in mind, and assumes that a single process
> owns the lock.

Tell the other side that an NFS client daemon owns the lock.
(or any other kernel process)

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