Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Stephan Wehner
I'm running df and it just hangs. ^C doesn't interrupt it. ^Z doesn't interrupt it. My guess is that some filesystem is not responding; still I should be able to get my console back, shouldn't I? Is this the BSD way? (My other linux machine responds to interrupts). Stephan #uname -a OpenBSD

Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: I'm running df and it just hangs. ^C doesn't interrupt it. ^Z doesn't interrupt it. My guess is that some filesystem is not responding; still I should be able to get my console back, shouldn't I? Is this the BSD way? (My other linux machine

Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: Let's get at this the other way round: What good comes from a designing the df command so that it might hang? I took it for granted there were no advantages. the df command was not designed so it may hang. -- And that's why they call me Cap'n