On Jun 11 2018, Alexander Shukaev <address@hidden> wrote:
On 2018-06-11 13:01, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Jun 11 2018, Alexander Shukaev <address@hidden>
wrote:
I initiated a discussion back in 2015 [1] about fragility of Emacs
in
terms of filesystem operations on stale NFS. No solution actually
came
out of this discussion. I still find this issue very disruptive.
Yet
another example would be `recentf-cleanup' which is in my case
triggered
on Emacs start up, when the file comes from stale NFS, the
corresponding
`file-readable-p' down the stack will hang indefinitely, and there
would
be no way to unfreeze it apart from issuing 'kill -9' to that Emacs
instance. Don't you people find it unacceptable for the daily
usage?
How is that a bug in Emacs if you have stale NFS mounts?
Andreas.
I didn't find a word "bug" in that quote. I'd rather call it a
robustness
enhancement. By the way, I guess you just don't realize how easy it
is to
run into that situation on daily basis.
Is it? Looks like you have an unreliable NFS server, but that's hardly
Emacs' problem. I have no problem with $HOME on NFS.
Andreas.