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Re: release-team minutes 1/12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Jan 12 16:16:38 2000
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To: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:08:43 EST."
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:16:30 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> We need to investigate attach's behavior, and possibly add stuff,
> but getting rid of "soft" is doable.
On Irix at least, "mount -o bg" will return success if it backgrounds.
And attach doesn't check that the directory is actually there. So it
will mostly work.
"mostly", because there's the potential for bad things to happen to
the attachtab. ("attach -o bg" backgrounds, and the mountpoint is
marked as being in use in the attachtab. Then the user detaches it, so
it's marked as not in use. Then the mount finally succeeds, and now
the mountpoint is in use, and attach doesn't know why.)
Also, "add foo" could fail if mounting foo backgrounds. But I don't
know of anyone who adds NFS lockers...
We probably want to add a "retry=#" option as well if we do "bg",
because the default is to retry 1000 times...
-- Dan
