[NTLUG:Discuss] Rebuilding (G)libc from an SRPM

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 23:25, George Lass wrote:
> Just FYI we are trying to rebuild libc to reduce the
> standard timeout parameter for mounting NFS file systems
> when the remote host is down. We want to reduce the
> timeout to just a few seconds during startup.

Which is fixed to 60 seconds.  Didn't know it was in GLibC, very
interesting (I learn something new everyday).

Is there any reason you can't take advantage of the automounter?
That way mount is not attempted until the NFS mount is actually
accessed?


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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