> > 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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