Hi, Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of them used the "wrong" function to implement that, since the commonly used function is not atomic over NFS (meaning locking could fail over NFS on a busy machine).
So, I'd like to know the status of that; is this solved in 1.3.1? What about 1.2 (I haven't upgraded yet, I'm lazy ;-) . Or, putting it differently: can I export my mail spool thru NFS and sleep at night if all systems involved run debian? On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS locking among linux and other Unixes etc. Quite misteriously, I don't see mentions to this when people talk about the improvements of the new kernels, why is that? And is the lockd really being developed? If so, should I expect it to be available when the newer kernel "freezes"? Thanks in Advance, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .