From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
Emacs Development Discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bvcs3kq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN4ruPhdBLsePG_WNoZJ7NXYCwKM6P0knyq4bt4G9ZyL16-hgQ@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Olson's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:34:53 -0700")
Michael Olson wrote:
> insert-directory (version in ls-lisp.el is used)
I'm surprised this succeeds if there is a missing NFS mount.
You're saying the NFS mount is outside the directory being listed, but
still hangs df?
> Apparently it's an issue in how df is implemented, in that it still
> attempts to stat all existing mounts before narrowing the listing by
> the directory param.
Wow, really? That seems like an odd way for it to be implemented.
Quick search gives eg
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00014.html
which suggests that df is aware of such issues and tries to avoid them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-05 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-05 18:50 Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL Michael Olson
2011-10-05 21:27 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-05 21:59 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 22:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-05 22:34 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 22:55 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2011-10-05 23:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-05 23:27 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-05 23:31 ` Michael Olson
2011-10-06 12:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 13:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-06 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 17:58 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-06 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 11:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-10-07 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 18:45 ` Michael Olson
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