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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Locking files across NFS
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.203815.25561@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 91 20:38:15 GMT
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   X-Name: Michel Fingerhut

   It would be neat to have a builtin lockf call (now that I got flock to work,
   thanks, Larry).

Beware that Sun's locking daemons don't always work correctly.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
--
"How many men you got 'ere, Colonel?"
"Oh, 7,000 infantry, 600 artillery, and 2 divisions of paratroops."
"Paratroops, Dino!"  "It'd be a shame of someone was to set fire to dem."
"Set fire to them?!"
"Fire's 'appen, Colonel."  "Fing's burn..."