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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking
From:       Xavier Parizet <xav () gentooist ! com>
Date:       2010-02-25 14:37:34
Message-ID: 4B868B2E.7030302 () gentooist ! com
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On 02/25/2010 03:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>> 10x,
>>
>> Amit
> 
> I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-(
> 
> I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in /etc/init.d ensued. 
> Then I remember something about lock.d with the transition to rpcbind from 
> portmap, but the details escape me now.
> 
> Anyone else remember?

Actually looking on the web, old (very old) kernels did not start
automatically nfs lockd in-kernel daemon. This behaviour was worked
around using so-called rpc.lockd or something to start tell the kernel
to start it.

With newer versions of the kernel, lockd is started automatically by the
kernel, leading rpc.lockd useless and being removed.

Please someone correct me if i understood badly what i found on the web.

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