From: Alexander Shukaev <emacs@alexander.shukaev.name>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:05:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <288488e642ec1f2ea0d1d15ab5dfe43b@alexander.shukaev.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmtvq9h9id.fsf@suse.de>
On 2018-06-11 13:01, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jun 11 2018, Alexander Shukaev <emacs@alexander.shukaev.name> wrote:
>
>> I initiated a discussion back in 2015 [1] about fragility of Emacs in
>> terms of filesystem operations on stale NFS. No solution actually
>> came
>> out of this discussion. I still find this issue very disruptive. Yet
>> another example would be `recentf-cleanup' which is in my case
>> triggered
>> on Emacs start up, when the file comes from stale NFS, the
>> corresponding
>> `file-readable-p' down the stack will hang indefinitely, and there
>> would
>> be no way to unfreeze it apart from issuing 'kill -9' to that Emacs
>> instance. Don't you people find it unacceptable for the daily usage?
>
> How is that a bug in Emacs if you have stale NFS mounts?
>
> Andreas.
I didn't find a word "bug" in that quote. I'd rather call it a
robustness enhancement. By the way, I guess you just don't realize how
easy it is to run into that situation on daily basis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 11:05 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 [this message]
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
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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