From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 8 16:37:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22580 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:37:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from salsa.gv.ssi1.com (salsa.gv.ssi1.com [146.252.44.194]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22571; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.ssi1.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA21664; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:36:52 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199611090036.QAA21664@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:36:52 -0800 In-Reply-To: Bill Paul "Re: Weirdie in mountd perhaps you can help me with..." (Nov 8, 6:37am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Bill Paul , jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Weirdie in mountd perhaps you can help me with... Cc: dfr@render.com, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Nov 8, 6:37am, Bill Paul wrote: } Subject: Re: Weirdie in mountd perhaps you can help me with... } } You can also test it somewhat using the rpcinfo command by asking it to } ping mountd's NULLPROC (RPC procudure 0 is usually reserved for a null } function that basically acts as a loopback of sorts; rpcinfo can be used } to call the null procedure and if you get an answer, you know the RPC } server is still alive). If the process is blocked inside a select loop } in the DNS code though, I'm not sure you would get an immediate answer. I believe that you would not get an immediate answer, since the code is likely non-threaded and non-event driven other than the outer select() loop. --- Truck