From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Olson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:45:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87mxdf3z8u.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0jty7nnl1f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5bvcs3kq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317926787 26950 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 18:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Emacs Development Discussions To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 20:46:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsxb-0003MW-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsxa-0004uU-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsxX-0004uC-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsxW-0007Hp-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:51690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBsxU-0007Gp-KL; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: by bkbzs2 with SMTP id zs2so4278166bkb.0 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.204.129.142 with SMTP id o14mr820972bks.233.1317926774348; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.204.112.79 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:45:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [216.103.134.130] In-Reply-To: <5bvcs3kq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ci64KtN9NmUfQNe7LeMAuJmhHTw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144630 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Michael Olson wrote: >> 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. I'm very skeptical that the `df' issue is actually fixed upstream, especially given that the patch seems to be almost entirely documentation. Maybe it deserves to be bumped there. Attempts to repro the issue have been unsuccessful, and I've spent about all the time I care to in attempting it. OS: Ubuntu 11.04 df (GNU coreutils) 8.5 --=20 Michael Olson=C2=A0 |=C2=A0 http://mwolson.org/