This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
their path names in the synopsis line (especially since they
referenced the wrong path!). Corrected some other minor problems
with the rpc.lockd man page.
- Use rpcgen to generate the unmodified boilerplate code rather than
having it in the repository.
- Eliminate the conflicting function names by changing them to their
"natural" rpcgen generated names
stub lockd.
This implements just the protocol, but does not interact with the kernel.
It says "Yes!" to all requests. This is useful if you have people using
tools that do locking for no reason (eg: some PC NFS systems running some
Microsoft products) and will happily report they couldn't lock the file
and merrily proceed anyway. Running this will not change the reliability of
sharing files, it'll just keep it out of everybody's face.