@bdew said:
edit: And actually it's not that much of a WTF, atleast the error is sane... under linux trying to run something from a dead NFS mount just freezes your session for a few minutes.
Right, this isn't a proper WTF. But too many people (all programmers) had to look at it before it was resolved! TRWTF is that I wasn't the person to discover it :-(
Still a very funny moment when someone discovered it and everyone went "duh!"!
About the Linux mount, if you boot diskless... your NFS session will continue eventually. Well... if you're lucky ;-)