ibuted.internal.locks.GrantorRequestProcessor.GrantorRequestMessage}) to
the member it believes to the elder.  If a member receives a
grantor-related message, it assumes it is the elder and begins to act
as such.

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When a member realizes that it is the Elder, it initiates elder
recovery by sending an <code>ElderInfoRequest</code> to each
member of the distributed system.  The other members reply with the
names of the lock service grantors that they host.  This information
allows the elder to build its m