On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'd probably need 2 processes ; one to drive and another process to > go off and stat the mount point. The driver would invoke the > stat'ers, and if the stat doesn't come back in some seconds, declare > the mount hung. Because if the mount really is hung, the stat process > is going to hang forever too, so you don't want your driver process > to get hung too. Why not implement this as a heartbeat trap---you have a process that just stats the mount point every however often, and sends a trap to mon. If it freezes because the mount freezes, it won't send the trap and mon will alert. Seems a lot cleaner, IMHO. Mike. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
