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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-lille1.fr!frmop11.cnusc.fr!barilvm!vms.huji.ac.il!pita.cs.huji.ac.il!mosaic.cs.huji.ac.il!yval Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: diskless 386bsd patches Message-ID: <1ok0gpINNme3@pita.cs.huji.ac.il> From: yval@mosaic.cs.huji.ac.il (Yuval Yarom) Date: 22 Mar 1993 09:22:33 GMT References: <1993Mar22.053826.17787@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Distribution: world Organization: The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Computer Science Dep. NNTP-Posting-Host: mosaic.cs.huji.ac.il Lines: 21 In article <1993Mar22.053826.17787@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) writes: |> Problem areas: |> |> 1) NFS on 386bsd does not support the flock() system call. This prevents |> the passwd(1) program and others from working. A wordaround would be |> to use lock-files if the flock() function is not supported. |> I once patched BSD/386 to support advisory record locking in NFS files. I believe it is very simple to port this patch to 386BSD. If anyone out there is interested in doing it she can find the patch in cs.huji.ac.il:~ftp/pub/yval/bsdi/nfs.advlock.patch. Have fun Yuval -- Yuval Yarom yval@cs.huji.ac.il What is the antonym of `synonym'?