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Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
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Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:59:58 -0400 |
On 11 June 2018 at 06:27, Alexander Shukaev
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Well, enough rant. I think I have a proposal how to fix the issue, even
> given the blocking nature of Emacs. How about introducing a variable
> `file-access-timeout' defaulting to `nil', which would reflect a
> configurable timeout for all access operations (such as `file-readable-p')?
> This would be achieved via `SIGALARM' in the C code, which would protect
> every such operation. For example,
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
- Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Alexander Shukaev, 2018/06/11
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Alexander Shukaev, 2018/06/11
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS,
Noam Postavsky <=
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Andreas Schwab, 2018/06/11
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Alexander Shukaev, 2018/06/11
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/11
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Paul Eggert, 2018/06/13
- Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS, Davis Herring, 2018/06/12