NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

[Alexey Karagodov]

it's all is very good, but what can you say about to fix problem with
rpc.lockd ???

2006/8/29, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>:
>
> On Mon, 2006-Aug-28 13:23:30 +0000, Michael Abbott wrote:
> >I think there is a case to be made for special casing SIGKILL, but in a
> >sense it's not so much the fate of the process receiving the SIGKILL that
> >counts: after all, having sent -9 I know that it will never process
> again.
>
> Currently, if you send SIGKILL, the process will never enter userland
> again.
>
> Going further, so that if you send a process SIGKILL, it will always
> terminate immediately is significantly more difficult.  In the normal
> case, a process is sleeping on some condition with PCATCH specified.
> If the process receives a signal, sleep(9) will return ERESTART or
> EINTR and the code has to then arrange to return back to userland
> (which will cause the signal to be handled as per sigaction(2) and
> the processes signal handlers).  In some cases, it may be inconvenient
> to unwind back to userland from a particular point so PCATCH isn't
> specified on the sleep.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
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