Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:48:19 +1000 | From | Greg Banks <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] lockd: remove hardcoded maximum NLM cookie length |
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:51:50PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi guys, > > At the moment, the NLM cookie length is fixed to 8 bytes, while 1024 is > the theoretical maximum. FreeBSD uses 16 bytes, Mac OS X uses 20 bytes. > Therefore we need to make the length dynamic (which I set to 32 bytes).
MacOS X has used 8 byte cookies since 10.3.4, so FreeBSD is the only known interop issue.
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