From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1499c540356624db8d327cd95edaadef@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Weird problem. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:37:13 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 578ac0d0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 If you run acid -k, you can get a kernel stack trace for the process doing the open. That will tell you what exactly is blocking. p->debug is a QLock, and unfortunately they don't keep track of who is currently holding it. The kernel trace might suggest where to go next though. grep /proc/ /proc/*/fd might be useful too.