Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!sjoerd
From: sjoerd@cwi.nl (Sjoerd Mullender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: problems porting amd to Concentrix 5.5.02
Message-ID: <1926@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 3 Aug 90 13:43:48 GMT
Sender: news@cwi.nl
Lines: 16

I am trying to port amd (Jan-Simon Pendry's automount daemon) to the
Alliant.  When we were running Concentrix 5.0.0, I had no problems doing
that, but since we are running 5.5.02, the automount daemon stopped
working.
By using adb I found that both amd and /etc/mount do a mount system call
with the exact same arguments.  The difference is that /etc/mount succeeds
in mounting the remote directory and amd fails.  Mount returns with an
errno of EDEADLK "Deadlock situation detected/avoided".  This error is
not documented in the manual.
Can anyone tell me why the kernel returns this errno?  Needless to say,
we don't have the source for the kernel.

Thanks in advance.
--
Sjoerd Mullender		Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
sjoerd@cwi.nl			Amsterdam, Netherlands