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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:06:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: sswapnee@in.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Mount system call hangs up the system
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 sswapnee@in.ibm.com wrote:
> Can somebody tell me why mount call just hangs?  Is there anyway to take a
> dump when the call is being executed.

You don't need a dump. Just go to the source and start inserting
printk() statements all over the sys_mount/do_mount etc. and sooner or
later the reason for hang will become obvious. Either it is a bug in your
program or in the kernel (or both). In any case it can be fixed.

Regards,
Tigran

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