Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

[Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>]

Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:

>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:31:58AM -0500, Marc Horowitz wrote:
>> > Do you have a reference to this document?  Retrying forever doesn't
>> > seem awful (it wouldn't be my preference, but that's ok), but retrying
>> > *uninterruptably* seems like it would never be desirable behavior.
>> 
>> mount(8)

Ah, so it's not a soft mount I want.  It's intr.  I don't agree with
the default, but it's clearly intentional, so you can close this bug.

Thanks for all the help!

                Marc