Doug Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 'intr' option to NFS is not the same as EINTR. It > it means 'if the server does not respond for a while, > then return an EINTR', just like any other disk read() > or write() does when it fails to reply.
No, you're thinking of 'soft'. 'intr' (which is actually a modifier to the 'hard' setting) causes the I/O to hang until the server comes back or the process gets a signal (in which case EINTR is returned). -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
