On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:02:49PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > While I agree that rpc.lockd should directly invoke the desired > system call if possible, having an indirect system call mechanism > is something that has proved useful to me in the past on other > Unices, and I would rather see it fixed than discarded. The question is not wheather to drop this mechnism - we can't anyway for compatibility reasons - but if a kernel or userspace implementation is preferable for the future. Ralf