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From: ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Avoiding resource waits on unavailable hard mounted fs
Summary: nfsping
Message-ID: <978@nih-csl.nih.gov>
Date: 15 Feb 91 03:49:31 GMT
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> I want to determine whether an access will hang prior to attempting
> to access the file system in order to take some evasive action.
> 
> A short time out would be acceptable.  Can anyone suggest a system
> call that will allow this.

In this neck of the woods, we nfsping the server first and check the
exit status.
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