On 01/26/2012 03:18 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:36:59PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:58:59 -0500 >> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: >>>> Correct. When knfsd starts back up, a new pipe will be created. At that >>>> point, the daemon will try to open the new one and will then close the >>>> old if the open succeeds. It will only loop here if that open fails for >>>> some reason. >>> >>> I'm a little confused--how could this happen? >>> >> >> Bugs? > > If that's really the only case then "crash and log an error" might > really be more robust in the long term than spinning. log and crash would make the bug that much more noticeable... IMHO... 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