[Radiance-general] Mac OSX, xgrid and RADIANCE

[Randolph Fritz]

On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
>
> Historically, there haven't been any problems with NFS or the lock  
> manager under OS X (or any BSD-derivative).  It's only Linux that's  
> been finicky on that count.  Arguably, we should really replace the  
> NFS lock manager with something more reliable, and we've gone back  
> and forth on how to do that, but I keep hoping the problem will go  
> away.  Are people still struggling with it under Linux, or is it  
> just the Windows version we have to start thinking about?  Last  
> time I spoke with Jack (of Visarc), I think he said it was still a  
> problem.

SunOS, which is also a BSD derivative, used to have major problems  
with NFS locking, too--my guess is they are still there.  NFS file  
locking is not a priority to any vendor or fropen development group I  
am aware of, so its operability is catch as catch can.

I don't have any time to work on this (sigh), but it really is an  
issue that needs attention.

Randolph