BUG: mount.nfs and "bg"

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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I've finally found a system that has the legacy mount command with NFS 
support built into it, so I've been able to start testing "bg" behavior 
in mount.nfs.  The old system is Fedora Core 5, with /bin/mount.  The 
new system is Fedora 7 and uses /sbin/mount.nfs.

I did a simple test.  On the NFS server I did a "service nfs stop", then 
tried a mount with "-o bg" from each client.  Results:

On FC5, the mount backgrounded immediately, and succeeded once I did a 
"service nfs start" on the server.  A "ps -ef | grep mount" shows a 
backgrounded mount process that goes away once the mount is successful.

On F7, the mount fails immediately with EX_FAIL.  There is no background 
mount process, according to ps.

I plan to study the legacy mount command to understand exactly what 
needs to be added to mount.nfs to make bg mounts work again.

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