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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Don't hang user processes if Kerberos ticket for nfs4 mount expires
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On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 12:54 -0500, Jim Rees wrote: 
> Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>
> So what are they supposed to do without tickets? Crash?
>
> No, why would they want to do that?
>
> I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone here, so please continue without
> me while I dig up the relevant background info.

The point is that if the server won't allow them to issue read or write
system calls, then there are 2 options available to them:

1. hang until someone renews their ticket
2. get an error which means crash, since most (all?) applications
aren't written according to the non-posix assumption that read
and write can return EACCES/EKEYEXPIRED errors.



Trond

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com



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