Re: Does nautilus hang if an NFS server is unreachable?

From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
To: "Peter O'Shea" <peter oshea analog com>
Cc: nautilus-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Does nautilus hang if an NFS server is unreachable?
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:36:52 -0500

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:40:49PM -0500, Peter O'Shea wrote: 
> Is nautilus waiting for this server to become available?  Isn't there a
> timeout specified somewhere?

The timeout is normally in the kernel. Design bug in NFS; if you touch
an NFS filesystem that's hung, then your app hangs, and there is no
way to avoid it. (Other than using threads.)

Nautilus probably just tries to stat() all volumes in mtab or
something.

Havoc

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Does nautilus hang if an NFS server is unreachable?
  - From: Mark McLoughlin
- Re: Does nautilus hang if an NFS server is unreachable?
  - From: Michael Meeks

References:
- Does nautilus hang if an NFS server is unreachable?
  - From: Peter O'Shea

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