Excerpts from mail: 19-Sep-01 RE: [OpenAFS] File locking .. "Karthik, R"@digital.com (1436*) > >>>The way locking works is strictly advisory: possession of locks is > >>>independent of whether I/O may be done on the file. > Does this mean a file can be written to even if a client has a read-lock on > the file? Please clarify. Yes. This is Unix semantics, not just AFS.