From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Alexander Shukaev <emacs@alexander.shukaev.name>,
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:26:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180612142611.7a5a4372@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b64edef7-1142-aa3d-38e0-ab8666d11d94@lanl.gov>
I think it's a serious mistake for emacs to try to pretend it can fix
the problem of a hung hard NFS mount for people. This belongs at the
OS layer, not at the level of emacs, and if someone wants the
semantics of soft mounts, they should use soft mounts. Emacs
shouldn't be in the business of special casing this, and indeed, on
many OSes where a hard mount will hang a process in an unkillable
kernel wait, it _can't_ fix it.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-12 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 10:27 Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 11:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-11 11:05 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 11:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-11 12:03 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 11:55 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 11:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-11 12:11 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 12:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-11 12:22 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 12:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-11 12:41 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 12:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-11 12:46 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-11 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-13 15:40 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-12 17:26 ` Davis Herring
2018-06-12 18:26 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-11 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-11 16:46 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-06-11 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-13 10:45 ` Alexander Shukaev
2018-06-13 12:35 ` Yuri Khan
2018-06-13 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-13 15:30 ` Yuri Khan
2018-06-13 18:09 ` Michael Albinus
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