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  1. From: davidw@hpindda.cup.hp.com (David Wetchler)
  2. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:45:56 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: NFS file locking
  4. Message-ID: <38810012@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
  5. Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
  6. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!mips!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpcuhb!hpindda!davidw
  7. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
  8. References: <889@marvin.jpl.oz>
  9. Lines: 12
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  11. >trying to do the locking, 'lockd' doesn't work -- the version
  12. >originally distributed by Sun certainly didn't do anything, and
  13.  
  14. Actually HP's lock manager has been working pretty well, since at least
  15. HP-UX 8.0. It is based on Sun's lock manager but has "been expanded" to 
  16. include kernel locking and fix some design problems.
  17.  
  18.  
  19. David Wetchler
  20. Information Networks Division
  21. Hewlett-Packard
  22. davidw@cup.hp.com
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