Linux compatible rpc.lockd

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> [041125 13:53] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, Bj?rn Gr?nvall wrote:
> > I have made a patch to address PR kern/56461, in short the patch
> > provides two different options to be compatible with Linux lockd
> > implementations. It can also serve as a basis for a future more robust
> > rpc.lockd.
> 
> Thank you for this. I looked at this around 8 months ago but abandoned
> further work on it because the approach I was taking required that
> nfs be refactored to use the nmount() API, and because I am not currently
> using NFS. It looks as though the two options implemented here helps to
> address the problems I was having with making sure Linux servers got
> the right lock cookie response.
> 
> Have you tested this in production and does it work well? If so I believe
> it should be committed, but I'd defer to Alfred for further review.

It looks non0invasive enough to be safe.  Please see if you can 
get a test run and commit it.  I'm in the hospital and not able to
do stuff.

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