On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:16:54PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The problem is that, as specified by the comments in netfs.h for > > netfs_attempt_lookup (), on successful lookups, the node found must > > be locked. Therefore, if the server's syncfs stub tries to acquire a > > lock on the node that has just been looked up by syncfs(1), it will > > just hang. > > Have you actually tried this? The node is unlocked before returning the > port to the user (via nput/nrele).
The actual problem actually is that netfs_S_file_syncfs () locks the node passed by the user before calling netfs_attempt_syncfs () (is it really useful?). Therefore, my program was hanging when trying to acquire this node's lock. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
