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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:23:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr2lahior.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8UDQzubBzE2zmzX-W+DDqPuaLv0AWWpGSgbE35WwMTQ+g@mail.gmail.com

>> way to time this case out reliably is to spawn a child which attempts to
>> perform 'stat' and is then killed by the parent if timed out (similar to
>> how 'lsof' does it).  I'm sure such a complex technique would be
>> unacceptable for Emacs.
> Isn’t that what TRAMP does behind the scene, though?

Indeed, and someone could write an "NFS file name handler" so you could
use something like "/nfs:<host>/...".  It might even be reasonably easy
for Tramp to provide that (since I believe GVFS supports NFS access).
But it won't help when Emacs accesses to NFS files via normal OS calls
rather than via Tramp.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-13 14:23 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
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 [this message]
2018-06-13 15:30       ` Yuri Khan
2018-06-13 18:09       ` Michael Albinus

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