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File 0629-kernel-Recommend-against-opening-NFS-mounted-files.patch of Package erlang
From 9840537ab271ab25a1f1bb4643f787555b8d9bff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?John=20H=C3=B6gberg?= <john@erlang.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:34:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kernel: Recommend against opening NFS-mounted files --- lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml index 42798530bd..aa1201d381 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml @@ -988,6 +988,13 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}. An <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> returned from this call can be used as an argument to the I/O functions (see <seeerl marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seeerl>).</p> + <warning> + <p>While this function can be used to open any file, we recommend + against using it for NFS-mounted files, FIFOs, devices, or + similar since they can cause IO threads to hang forever.</p> + <p>If your application needs to interact with these kinds of files we + recommend breaking out those parts to a port program instead.</p> + </warning> <note> <p>In previous versions of <c>file</c>, modes were specified as one of the atoms <c>read</c>, <c>write</c>, or -- 2.31.1
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