From the Linux 'nfs' man page:

 intr           If  an  NFS file operation has a major timeout and it is
                hard mounted, then allow signals to  interupt  the  file
                operation  and  cause  it to return EINTR to the calling
                program.  The default is to not allow file operations to
                be interrupted.

Solaris 'mount_nfs' man page

 intr | nointr
                Allow (do not allow) keyboard interrupts to kill
                a  process  that  is  hung  while  waiting for a
                response on  a  hard-mounted  file  system.  The
                default  is  intr,  which  makes it possible for
                clients to interrupt applications  that  may  be
                waiting for a remote mount.

The Solaris and Linux defaults seem to be the opposite of each other.

So I think we are saying the same thing.

You can get EINTR with hard+intr mounts.

I am not sure what you get with soft mounts on a timeout.

Doug McNaught wrote:
Doug Royer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


The 'intr' option to NFS is not the same as EINTR. It
it means 'if the server does not respond for a while,
then return an EINTR', just like any other disk read()
or write() does when it fails to reply.


No, you're thinking of 'soft'.  'intr' (which is actually a modifier
to the 'hard' setting) causes the I/O to hang until the server comes
back or the process gets a signal (in which case EINTR is returned).

-Doug

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