From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:14:20 +0100
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Cc: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
       luto@myrealbox.com, aebr@win.tue.nl
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Frank van Maarseveen schrieb:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:05:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:56:50PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Okay, so the right solution is probably something more like
> > >
> > > while umount /mnt; do
> > >  fuser -km -TERM /mnt
> > >  sleep 1
> > >  fuser -km /mnt
> > > done
> There's a much more interesting race: another process succesfully umounting
> the thing while this one's asleep.

For those who don't know what happens: fuser -km /mnt will act like
fuser -km / in that race and kill all processes.

BTDT :-(

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