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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: NFS future enhancements?
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Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 15:27:45 EST
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> SUN has at various times indicated an intention of providing record
> locking and support for swapping through NFS...

Sun has already provided record locking, although it's not really done with
NFS.  There is a separate locking service, which is a different RPC service
from NFS.  The system calls that do record locking (the standard System V,
Release 2, Version Whichever One Provides Record Locking On Your Particular
Machine "fcntl" calls) go though this locking service, rather than through
NFS, if the file system on which the file resides has been mounted via NFS.
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