Please stop apps going into state D uninterrupted sleep !!

[Sam Varshavchik]

Andrew Gray writes:

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> Hi
>
> Either give use a way to kill a hung cp or rsync  when the VPN goes down and  
> they end up is state D uninterrupted sleep or stop apps being able to go into  
> uninterrupted sleep !!
>
> It is unacceptable for a Linux system to have to be  
> <URL:mailto:CRASGusers at lists.fedoraproject.org>CRASH  reboot as the mounted  
> CIF mount can't be umounted as it is in use by cp or rsync in stated D  
> uninterrupted sleep !!

Hmmmm…, would you mind posting the mount options from the fstab entry for  
your CIFS mount?

If you have the non-default "hard" option included in there, you should be  
yelling, instead, at whoever must've explicitly added that option there, as  
helpfully explained by the mount.cifs(8) man page.

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