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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: hard vs. soft mounts on Suns and Pyramids
Message-ID: <290@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 01:55:15 GMT
References: <15766@bellcore.bellcore.com> <840@mtxinu.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <840@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@garcia.mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) writes:
>Hard mounts *are* interruptible with the "intr" option.  That's precisely
>what the option is for, since soft mounts were always interruptible
>in essence.

I realise that's what the manuals say.  And I've looked at the code
which puports to do this.  But the fact is that the "intr" option
just plain doesn't work much of the time.  

Does anybody know why this is so?

Thanks
Fletcher Mattox

Ps: Oh yeah, I'm *not* complaining about it taking a long, but finite,
amount of time to process the interrupt.