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Subject: Re: NFS file locking?
To: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:43:21 +0100 (BST)
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> a) is it the belief of folks here that this should work?

NFSv2 doesnt have the needed semantics

> b) if performance isn't a big issue, is there any portable way to do
>    locking over NFS with just files?

The classic way is to use link(). 
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