questMessage} to
find out who the current grantor is.  If no member is currently the
grantor of the distributed lock service, then the member that sent the
request is chosen to be the grantor.

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By centralizing the information and logic regarding which member hosts
a grantor, we avoid numerous race conditions and deadlocks when a new
lock service is created, when a lock service is destroyed, when a
member t