Re: New kernel - netscape hangs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 00:42:33 +0000 (GMT)


> 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

> 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

> > The return code fixes a posix bug. But the rest ?
> What rest?

All the EPROTO changes etc in sunrpc. Are the unavoidable.

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