Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS

[Alexander Shukaev]

On 2018-06-11 14:34, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On 11 June 2018 at 08:22, Alexander Shukaev
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 2018-06-11 14:20, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> > > On 11 June 2018 at 08:11, Alexander Shukaev
> > > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Does it work? According to some messages on the previous thread you
> > > > > referenced [1], NFS hangs happen in the kernel so a signal would 
> > > > > not
> > > > > help.
> > > > >
> > > > > [1]:
> > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-11/msg00266.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Go ahead and try:
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't have a hanging NFS server here, so I can't do any useful 
> > > testing.
> >
> >
> > Oh, I have plenty of suggestions for you.  Just pull the network plug 
> > out...
> > :D
>
> I mean, I don't have an NFS server at all. I suppose I could try
> installing one...

There are plenty of other ways why those file operations might hang.  
For example, [1].

[1] 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/63071/local-regular-file-causes-stat-or-ls-l-to-hang