NFS future enhancements?

[Guy Harris]

> SUN has at various times indicated an intention of providing record
> locking and support for swapping through NFS...

Sun has already provided record locking as of SunOS 3.2, although it's not
really done with NFS.  There is a separate locking service, which is a
different RPC service from NFS.  The system calls that do record locking
(the standard System V, Release 2, Version Whichever One Provides Record
Locking On Your Particular Machine "fcntl" calls) go though this locking
service, rather than through NFS, if the file system on which the file
resides has been mounted via NFS.

(BTW, it's not "SUN", it's "Sun Microsystems", or just "Sun".  SUN is an
acronym for Stanford University Network; "Sun" is part of the name of a
company and is not an acronym.)
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