From gentoo-user  Sun Feb 28 08:45:15 2010
From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds () oversi ! com>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:45:15 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking
Message-Id: <4B8A2D1B.5010403 () oversi ! com>
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Neil Walker wrote:
> Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>   
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>>     
>
> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
> internally by the kernel.
>
>
> Be lucky,
>
> Neil
> http://www.neiljw.com
>
>
>
>   
rpc.lockd was removed starting of nfs-utils-1.1.0 (~May 2007).
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=14&release_id=507588

Thanks to everyone who helped pointing me at the right direction.

Amit