Archive-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 14:57:56 +0100 Sender: owner-emacs-testers@lp.se MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:57:52 MET Message-ID: <13088.11504.597383.feedmail.pl5.LEVITTE@devil.bofh.se> From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker Reply-To: emacs-testers@LISTS.VMS.GNU.AI.MIT.EDU To: emacs-testers@lists.vms.gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Emacs over NFS... I've tried running Emacs from a disk that is NFS-mounted (with UCX 4.1 NFS in both ends, meaning it runs in that special VMS-to-VMS mode). It crashed. The reason for this is that Emacs tries to map EMACS-version.DUMP to parts of the virtual memory, thus quickly setting all variables to appropriate values. It's done by using SYS$CRMPSC. Apparently it doesn't work at all when the file to map is on an NFS-mounted disk. Not surprising at all, I'd been more surprised if it HAD worked... The question is of course, is there something that can be done about this? Do I want to do such a fix, or shall I still require true cluster mounts? IF it could be made to work, it would of course impress on some people, but I wonder if it's really worth the time spent... Please, give me some advice, comments, ideas on how (and if)... Thanks. -- R Levitte, Levitte Programming; Spannv. 38, I; S-161 43 Bromma; SWEDEN Tel: +46-8-26 52 47; Cel: +46-10-222 64 05; No fax right now PGP key fingerprint = A6 96 C0 34 3A 96 AA 6C B0 D5 9A DF D2 E9 9C 65 Check http://www.lp.se/~levitte for my public key. bastard@bofh.se