>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Mewburn <lukem@telstra.com.au> writes:

Luke> (*) Besides, of course, the inability for Sun (who *designed*
Luke> NFS and crow about that they're the best people who do
Luke> networking) to get lockd working. We're yet to get Solaris 2.5
Luke> (which apparantly fixes lockd), but for some reason our Sun
Luke> salesperson won't take up our offer of "if we break lockd in < 1
Luke> week, we get a free ultrasparc". Reeks of confidence, no?  (Mind
Luke> you, I suspect that no-one else has got a truely working lockd
Luke> either) PS: you ever wonder why the only part of NFS they didn't
Luke> release the source for was lockd? Maybe they were embarrassed
Luke> :-)

	I don't know where I saw it... but recently someone mentioned
in my virtual presence that someone has now proven that lockd
(according to NFS spec) cannot be implemented correctly.

Dave.

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