apping of lock services to grantors.
While the elder is initializing, it will not respond to any requests
for grantor information.

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To optimize the common case in which the elder does not leave the
distributed system, we do not require the first member to join a
distributed system to perform elder recovery.  When a member connects
to the distributed system, it keeps track of whether or not there are
any other members.  If there are no other members, this first member
notes this fact and if it becomes t