Re: New kernel - netscape hangs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:51:26 +0000 (GMT)


> > 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.

> > 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.

Alan

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