Re: Mount system call hangs up the system

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 08:06:39 EST


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 sswapnee@in.ibm.com wrote:
> Can somebody tell me why mount call just hangs? Is there anyway to take a
> dump when the call is being executed.

You don't need a dump. Just go to the source and start inserting
printk() statements all over the sys_mount/do_mount etc. and sooner or
later the reason for hang will become obvious. Either it is a bug in your
program or in the kernel (or both). In any case it can be fixed.

Regards,
Tigran

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