Let's get at this the other way round: What good comes from a designing the df command so that it might hang? I took it for granted there were no advantages.
Stephan On 6/28/05, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: > > > I'm running df and it just hangs. > > > > ^C doesn't interrupt it. ^Z doesn't interrupt it. > > > > My guess is that some filesystem is not responding; still I should be > > able to get my console back, shouldn't I? > > > > Is this the BSD way? (My other linux machine responds to interrupts). > > > > Stephan > > > > #uname -a > > OpenBSD myosin.sugarmotor.net 3.7 GENERIC#50 i386 > > > This got to be a contender for "the most useless problem report this year." > > Since you do not provide any details on your setup (dmesg, are you using NFS, > how are the filesystems mounted, anything in the log files or console) > we cannot help you. > > Check http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html and report.html and try again. > > -Otto
