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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 20:47:17 +0300
From: yedidya@sunlight.cs.biu.ac.il (Yedidya Israel)
Subject: a problem with amd
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I have a problem with amd maybe someone else faced it already. Thanks
in advance for any constructive replies.

Consider the following scenario ...

1. A process that uses file in a auto-mounted place (e.g. a shell that
its current directory is /home/students/david where /home/students is
an auto mount point).

2. The process went to sleep / suspended

3. Meanwhile the fileserver went down and of course /home/students is
not available for anyone.

4. After sometime fileserver comes up again ...

In this point /home/students is still unavailable until the process
above is continues or is killed.

Usually these processes are hard to locate and need manual action.

Is it a problem with amd in general or with version ?

% amd -v
Copyright (c) 1990 Jan-Simon Pendry
Copyright (c) 1990 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine
Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
amd 5.2.1.12 of 91/04/05 22:40:03 5.3Alpha12 #0: Sun Oct 27 15:35:47 IST 1991
Built by yedidya@sunblast for a sun4 running sos4 (big-endian).
Map support for: root, passwd, union, nis, file, error.
FS: ufs, nfs, nfsx, host, link, program, union, auto, direct, toplvl, error.
Primary network is 132.70.0.0.

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