[Ti] very rare, in OS X

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 10:07  pm, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> on 03/04/02 12:39, luke at etyrnal at ameritech.net wrote:
>
>> Just negligent programming in apple's part...
>>
>> if the tibook has a way to sense a valid cat-5 or airport connection
>> and it knows that one or both of those 'physical' connections are lost
>> it should be smart enough to KNOW that any remote mount/filesystem etc
>> is - hello?? - no longer available.
>>
>
> That's not quite the problem.  The problem is when the physical 
> connection
> is still there but the remote server is no longer on the network.  
> Here are
> the actual problems:
>
> 1.  Searching for a remote server should not hog 99% of the CPU.

I agree
>
> 2.  There should be a timeout.  Hello - if you don't answer after 60 
> seconds
> I conclude that you're not there and abort.

Let's make it 30. Or even better configurable.

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Tarik Bilgin
Opalblue
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