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Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS |
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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:01:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Jun 11 2018, Alexander Shukaev <address@hidden> wrote:
> I initiated a discussion back in 2015 [1] about fragility of Emacs in
> terms of filesystem operations on stale NFS. No solution actually came
> out of this discussion. I still find this issue very disruptive. Yet
> another example would be `recentf-cleanup' which is in my case triggered
> on Emacs start up, when the file comes from stale NFS, the corresponding
> `file-readable-p' down the stack will hang indefinitely, and there would
> be no way to unfreeze it apart from issuing 'kill -9' to that Emacs
> instance. Don't you people find it unacceptable for the daily usage?
How is that a bug in Emacs if you have stale NFS mounts?
Andreas.
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