Re: New kernel - netscape hangs

H.J. Lu (hjl@varesearch.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:04:42 -0800 (PST)

>
> > > 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.
>
> Ok I'll run a test on that. But it should be using NFS timeouts IMHO, thats
> what BSD seems to do.

Timeout sounds ok for me.

>
> > > 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.
>
> But its only part of the testing. You also need to handle ECONNREFUSED
> likewise to be consistent. An ECONNREFUSED means the portmap may have
> given a port but nobody was listening.

I will look into it.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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