From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261304AbVABWn1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:43:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261338AbVABWn1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:43:27 -0500 Received: from h80ad2465.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.101]:33469 "EHLO h80ad2465.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261304AbVABWnX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:43:23 -0500 Message-Id: <200501022243.j02MhANg004075@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:38:29 +0100." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_445324364P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:43:10 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_445324364P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:38:29 +0100, Bodo Eggert said: > Maybe it's possible to extend the semantics of umount -l to change all > cwds under that mountpoint to be deleted directories which will no > longer cause the mountpoint to be busy (e.g. by redirecting them to a > special inode on initramfs). Most applications can cope with that (if > not, they're buggy), You mean that a program is *buggy* if it does: cwd("/home/user"); /* do some stuff while we get our cwd ripped out from under us */ file = open("./.mycconfrc"); and expects the file to be opened in /home/user??? --==_Exmh_445324364P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFB2Hj+cC3lWbTT17ARAnVwAKCT6h3UiBujMisfiYGPWMiHSXiJQACbBiBs YIUTi5z4cBnG5q5HQ5zbHK0= =c6R/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_445324364P--