Re: NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-16 Thread Jan Conrad
Dear Ian, thanks a lot for your answer! (I was searching the bug reports but didn't find bin/6658...). Are you really sure about the following? On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Ian Dowse wrote: > This should no longer be an issue with FreeBSD 3.x, as the system normally > uses the new _getcwd syscall. The

Re: NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-16 Thread Jan Conrad
Dear Ian, thanks a lot for your answer! (I was searching the bug reports but didn't find bin/6658...). Are you really sure about the following? On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Ian Dowse wrote: > This should no longer be an issue with FreeBSD 3.x, as the system normally > uses the new _getcwd syscall. The

Re: NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-15 Thread Ian Dowse
In message , Jan Conrad writes: >after wondering for two years why FreeBSD (2.2.x ... 3.2) might lock up >when an NFS server is down, I think I have found one reason for that (see >kern/12609 - I now know it doesn't belong to kern - sorry). > >It is the implementation of getcwd (src/lib/libc/gen/ge

Re: NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-15 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] e>, Jan Conrad writes: >after wondering for two years why FreeBSD (2.2.x ... 3.2) might lock up >when an NFS server is down, I think I have found one reason for that (see >kern/12609 - I now know it doesn't belong to kern - sorry). > >It is the implementation of getcw

NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-15 Thread Jan Conrad
Hi everybody, after wondering for two years why FreeBSD (2.2.x ... 3.2) might lock up when an NFS server is down, I think I have found one reason for that (see kern/12609 - I now know it doesn't belong to kern - sorry). It is the implementation of getcwd (src/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.c). When examinin

NFS problems due to getcwd/realpath

1999-07-15 Thread Jan Conrad
Hi everybody, after wondering for two years why FreeBSD (2.2.x ... 3.2) might lock up when an NFS server is down, I think I have found one reason for that (see kern/12609 - I now know it doesn't belong to kern - sorry). It is the implementation of getcwd (src/lib/libc/gen/getcwd.c). When examini