From: <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: <phil@fifi.org>, <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
<theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [NFS client] NFS locks not released on abnormal process termination
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:50:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35311.68.42.103.198.1073580656.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073558844.242410.4086.nullmailer@yamt.dyndns.org>
>
> i think it's problematic because you can't assume the lock was
> granted on the server and the signaled process might not exit
> immediately.
The point is that it is *worse* to assume the lock was not granted,
since then it will never get cleared on the server.
The RPC layer blocks all signals except SIGKILL, so the signalled
process has no choice but to exit immediately if something gets
through.
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 4:48 [NFS client] NFS locks not released on abnormal process termination Kenny Simpson
2003-12-06 19:50 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-08 3:39 ` Kenny Simpson
2003-12-08 5:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-12-08 17:32 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-08 19:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-12-09 8:15 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-09 8:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-12-09 18:46 ` Philippe Troin
2003-12-10 2:42 ` Kenny Simpson
2003-12-15 1:04 ` Kenny Simpson
2003-12-15 1:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-08 10:47 ` YAMAMOTO Takashi
2004-01-08 16:50 ` trond.myklebust [this message]
2004-01-09 2:56 ` [NFS] " YAMAMOTO Takashi
2004-01-09 3:40 ` trond.myklebust
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