Re: NetBSD 1.6 hanging on venus startup

2003-01-04 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:04:13AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Why can't we just refrain from doing the stat at mount time, and do it > on demand when it is actually needed, with a variable to record > whether the stat info is valid (or time of last stat, if we want to > avoid calling more than o

Re: NetBSD 1.6 hanging on venus startup

2003-01-04 Thread Greg Troxel
I do agree but at the moment we have a chicken and egg situation - venus needs to be answering to provide the stat information but it is currently in the kernel doing a mount. One thing that does occur to me is what about venus feeding the stat information into the message queue prior to