From: Spencer Shepler <spencer.shepler@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Stale fcntl lock never released
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:03:10 -0700
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   Guilherme Salgado <salgado@async.com.br>
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Some server implementations provide a administrative command 
to release NFS locks held at the server for a specific client
for this scenario where the client is turned off or will never
contact the server again.

Spencer

Christian Reis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:14:10PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > >>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:
> >
> >      > What if the client never reboots, but instead is turned off and
> >      > another client turned on? Should the lock persist? For how
> >      > long?
> >
> > It will persist forever.
> 
> How odd.
> 
> Is the only solution is to restart the server-side statd, or knfsd?
> 
> Take care,
> --
> Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
> http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL
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