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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL |
Date: | Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:05 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Michael Olson wrote: > insert-directory (version in ls-lisp.el is used) I'm surprised this succeeds if there is a missing NFS mount. You're saying the NFS mount is outside the directory being listed, but still hangs df? > Apparently it's an issue in how df is implemented, in that it still > attempts to stat all existing mounts before narrowing the listing by > the directory param. Wow, really? That seems like an odd way for it to be implemented. Quick search gives eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00014.html which suggests that df is aware of such issues and tries to avoid them.
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