Bug#27284: nfs access method can't be interrupted

[joey@infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.23.2

The NFS access method for dselect doesn't allow to get interrupted by
pressing C-c.  This is not a good sign if one mistakenly uses NFS
instead of FTP and notices that because the method doesn't work.

There is an endless loop wrt. input of the path to the debian archive
on the NFS server.  Due to a bug in the nfs server code this doesn't
work in my LAN.  Please don't masquarade the C-c (SIGBRK) in this
method.

My setup:

debian mirror: /home/ftp/debian

ftp server:    /home/ftp/pub as /pub for anonymous ftp
               /home/ftp/pub/debian mounted from the debian mirror
               /pub is linted to /home/ftp/pub

new machine:   can mount ftp:/pub
               cannot mount ftp:/pub/debian
               cannot mount ftp:/home/ftp/pub/debian
               cannot mount ftp:/home/ftp/pub/debian/dists

The ftp server contains this excerpt from /etc/exports.

/home/ftp/pub/debian	*.infodrom.north.de
/home/ftp/pub		*.infodrom.north.de

Thus it should be possible to mount but it isn'nt.  I guess I'll
also report it as bug against the netstd package.


Regards,

	Joey

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