On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> On Wed Mar 31 02:50:35 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I've just noticed this too.
> 
> How fast is your alpha?
> 
> It may be a timing problem on faster alphas.
> 
> I see the same problem on my 533MHz 164lx.
> 
> A work around for the /etc/rc hang is to disable mount_critical_filesystems
> in it and use mount /usr and mount /var instead or compile mount(8) with -O0.
> 

This is a really odd change- but I guess I have to believe it- so why did
detaching mount in single user mode and redirecting it's output to a file
still cause and echo of a line to the console and a hang?