Sorry for the delayed response... I spent most of last week off line due to Red Hat moving to a new building... fun, fun, fun! :-\ Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Steve- > > There is an important case in mount.nfs where EACCES is temporary: The > kernel's rpcbind client returns EACCES if the remote rpcbind server > replies that the requested service is not registered. I guess I see the reasoning behind this... a server could be coming up so the mount should hang around waiting for that... > > It would be easy enough for the kernel's mount client to remap that > error code into something unique for the mount system call. I would think ENOENT would be a better mapping for RPC_PROG_UNAVAIL. But that still leaves the possible problem of the mount not waiting around for servers to come up... Or do we even have to worry about mounts failing because a server is not up yet? I'm beginning to think not... steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
