Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: > 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. Do not assume it has been designed to hang. I was to get some details from you, so I can l

Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: > 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. the df command was not designed so it may hang. -- And that's why they call me Cap'n Win

Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Stephan Wehner
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

Re: Interrupting df

2005-06-29 Thread Otto Moerbeek
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 ma