Re: Fixing dired hangs when NFS mount goes AWOL

[Michael Olson]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michael Olson wrote:
>> Apparently it's an issue in how df is implemented, in that it still
>> attempts to stat all existing mounts before narrowing the listing by
>> the directory param.
>
> Wow, really? That seems like an odd way for it to be implemented.
>
> Quick search gives eg
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00014.html
>
> which suggests that df is aware of such issues and tries to avoid them.

I'm very skeptical that the `df' issue is actually fixed upstream,
especially given that the patch seems to be almost entirely
documentation.  Maybe it deserves to be bumped there.  Attempts to
repro the issue have been unsuccessful, and I've spent about all the
time I care to in attempting it.

OS: Ubuntu 11.04
df (GNU coreutils) 8.5

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