From: Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>
Subject: Re: Stale fcntl lock never released
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:07:23 -0300
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:02:10PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:
> 
>      > (Trond, do any of the lockd patches in
>      > http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.21/ fix something like
>      > this?)
> 
> No. This is what rpc.statd is supposed to do. When a client reboots,
> it is supposed to notify the server that it should remove all locks
> belonging to that client.

What if the client never reboots, but instead is turned off and another
client turned on? Should the lock persist? For how long?

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL


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