From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 10 02:57:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA05585 for current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA05579 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA11986 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20508; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:51:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:51:23 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Tom Bartol cc: current@freebsd.org, Hidetoshi Shimokawa Subject: Re: NFS weirdness in -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Tom Bartol wrote: > > Try this: > > At the same time as doing a: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=ick bs=8192 count=1024 > > to an NFS mounted directory in one xterm do an: > > ls > > from within the same NFS mounted directory in another xterm. What happens > is the ls hangs until the dd finishes. I don't think this the correct > behavior and it certainly is not the behavior I saw under 2.1.0R. Anybody > have a clue here? This sounds as if it might be related to a problem which came up yesterday. Hidetoshi Shimokawa was working on a patch which might fix this. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426