From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Chris Locke Message-ID: <974282820.25325.0.nnrp-08.d4f0e306@news.demon.co.uk> References: , <01db01c04e8d$692a29a0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> Subject: Re: [9fans] AFS-client for Plan9 - ? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:55:16 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2cef59d6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The kernel cannot close the fds if the machine has crashed. The original post said "if the local machine crashes". This can also be read as "some numskul knocked the reset button / kicked the power lead out / raccoon sat on local power transformer etc. etc." Chris.