RFS vs. NFS

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <10184 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell at hector (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>I thought the key difference was that RFS maintains true Unix
>semantics when the file is remote. NFS does not (locks, for
>instance).

In some implementations, at least, there is a separate "lock daemon"
process that receives locking/unlocking requests on a socket and
coordinates access to the files.  I know, it's a kludge, but it ought
to be able to work right (somebody did report problems with theirs).