Xref: utzoo comp.unix.internals:1676 comp.emacs:9799 comp.unix.questions:27758 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!barilvm!bimacs!yedidya From: yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.emacs,comp.unix.questions Subject: emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't open ... Keywords: getpwd nfs mount Message-ID: <2657@bimacs.BITNET> Date: 31 Dec 90 13:18:30 GMT Organization: Math & CS, BarIlan U, Ramat-Gan, Israel Lines: 36 Is anybody out there (not in vacation)? I have a question concerning getpwd on an NFS-mounted filesystem. Local host: bimacs, mv3200, ultrix3.0 remote host: birisc, ds5200, ultrix4.0 Bimacs mounts /u/private from birisc, "mount" says: birisc:/u/private on /nfs/birisc/u/private type nfs (rw,hard,bg,intr,nosuid,rsize=4096,wsize=4096) Now: % ls -l /u/private lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 21 Dec 26 15:58 /u/private -> /nfs/birisc/u/private % cd /u/private/x/y/z # cd /nfs/birisc/u/private yields the same results. % pwd /u/private/x/y/z % emacs emacs: `getwd' failed: getwd: can't open ... % ls .. [works] All other regular commands (cat, less, ls, cp) works fine. This situation occurs sometimes, usually after a crash+reboot of the server, even after umount+mount the situation persists. Why ? -- | Israel Yedidya, Math & CS Department, Bar-Ilan U, Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Internet: yedidya@bimacs.biu.ac.il Bitnet: yedidya@bimacs | | Uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!humus!bimacs!yedidya | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ \--- If someone proves there is no God, I'll stop being religious ---/ --------------------------------------------------------------------