Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:47:16 -0800 | From | "H.J. Lu" <> | Subject | Re: New kernel - netscape hangs |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> > It is not that there is no response. My patch returns an error when > > the daemon doesn't exist on the the server. > > But the daemon might be back in a second or two.
So? The application has to deal with the error return. BTW, it only happens when the daemon is not registered with portmap.
> > > > As I said, my patch returns an error only when daemon is not running at all. > > It doesn't make much senses to time out. Besides, how do you do ^C in netscape? > > Remember the process will sleep forever. > > I see errors not hangs when mounting and trying to lock a partition with no > lockds running and not mounted nolock
You have to run Linux 2.2.1 kernel with my complete knfsd package. It hangs inside lockd.
> > > > > The return code fixes a posix bug. But the rest ? > > What rest? > > All the EPROTO changes etc in sunrpc. Are the unavoidable.
It is necessary for lockd to detect that the daemon is not registered on the NFS server.
H.J.
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