And please post that patch to the list when you find it, or the URL :-)
-- Daniel> Sujal Shah wrote: > > I'm working on a userspace filesystem daemon which replaces Venus (from > > CODA) or podfuk (UserVFS) using the CODA driver. I'm still early in my > > development process, but I've run into one frustrating problem. While > > testing my code, I have started causing ls to hang. > > > > It keeps the directory open, which means I can't do things like, oh, > > unmount the filesystem. :-) Anyone have any suggestions on recovering > > gracefully when this happens short of rebooting (which is what I do > > now)? Basically, 'ls' hangs, and can't be killed (even kill -9) and > > 'lsof' lists the directory as open (which is furthered confirmed by > > umount complaining about the filesystem being busy). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/