Re: Emacs Hangs on Filesystem Operations on Stale NFS

[Noam Postavsky]

On 11 June 2018 at 06:27, Alexander Shukaev
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, enough rant.  I think I have a proposal how to fix the issue, even
> given the blocking nature of Emacs.  How about introducing a variable
> `file-access-timeout' defaulting to `nil', which would reflect a
> configurable timeout for all access operations (such as `file-readable-p')?
> This would be achieved via `SIGALARM' in the C code, which would protect
> every such operation.  For example,

Does it work? According to some messages on the previous thread you
referenced [1], NFS hangs happen in the kernel so a signal would not
help.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-11/msg00266.html