Depositing the locks with the coordinator

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• depositLock.c

    The process that deposits locks is started whenever we want to add locks to a coordinator. Depositing more locks with the coordinator means more number of computations will be able to execute simultaneously on that coordinator. But at any instant, the number of locks with the coordinator should be such that the coordinator is able to manage those locks and the RIBs that are executing using those locks. If the number of locks with the coordinator becomes large the coordinator may become heavily loaded.
    Following are the steps that comprise the locks-deposit procedure and they are present in the file depositLock.c:

• Get the number of locks,numberOfLocks, and the name of the machine where the locks have to be deposited as command line arguments.
• Create a client handle cl,on the coordinator whose machine name is specified in the above step.
• Call the RPC service deposit_locks(int numberOfLocks) using the client handle cl,.