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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Shukaev <emacs@alexander.shukaev.name>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:59:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV--AtCxSVS18VLnGNKao8xb4KV3GWFx3nA+=C92To8mn2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1727545582523435cab149c2bc857b40@alexander.shukaev.name>

On 11 June 2018 at 06:27, Alexander Shukaev
<emacs@alexander.shukaev.name> wrote:

> Well, enough rant.  I think I have a proposal how to fix the issue, even
> given the blocking nature of Emacs.  How about introducing a variable
> `file-access-timeout' defaulting to `nil', which would reflect a
> configurable timeout for all access operations (such as `file-readable-p')?
> This would be achieved via `SIGALARM' in the C code, which would protect
> every such operation.  For example,

Does it work? According to some messages on the previous thread you
referenced [1], NFS hangs happen in the kernel so a signal would not
help.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-11/msg00266.html



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11 11:59 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 [this message]
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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