NFS file locking

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <9104231257.aa28242 at PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> jduarte at siam.ICS.UCI.EDU (J o s e D u a r t e) writes:
>	One of my friends told me that you all had discussed NFS
>file locking to guarantee exclusive access to a file. Can someone
>send me a summary of this discussion or at least provide some
>hints on how to do NFS file locking?

use lockf(3). This uses lockd to request the locking.

		-Kartik


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