intermachine flocking

Simon Wistow simon at thegestalt.org
Tue Dec 13 16:54:35 GMT 2005


On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:34:16PM +0000, Lusercop said:
> And you aren't using fcntl(2) and lockd(8) because...? (OK, I know that NFS
> still has issues about locking, but this does basically work).

Because I'm an idiot and was labouring under the misaprehension that no 
locking worked on NFS whereas this is perfectly suitable for our needs.

Hurrah! Beers all round!




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