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From: paik@mlo.dec.com (Samuel S. Paik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy
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Date: 5 Apr 93 01:23:29 GMT
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In article <1pnaaq$qqv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>If you're going to introduce state (locks) into NFS, why don't you
>just make ETXTBSY work?

If you get ETXTBSY working, why not generalize to file locks?

Sam Paik