From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:56:47 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:17167 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:56:30 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: "Amit S. Kale" , Sujal Shah Subject: Re: FS Development (or interrupting ls) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:43:19 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , tigran@veritas.com In-Reply-To: <3B69EF9C.74DF18D6@sujal.net> <3B6A7A72.C2BF8C26@veritas.com> In-Reply-To: <3B6A7A72.C2BF8C26@veritas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080316431904.01827@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 03 August 2001 12:18, Amit S. Kale wrote: > Tigran Aivazian had a patch for doing a forced unmount. > It will solve your problem. You can check whether he has a patch > for the kernel you are using. And please post that patch to the list when you find it, or the URL :-) -- Daniel > Sujal Shah wrote: > > I'm working on a userspace filesystem daemon which replaces Venus (from > > CODA) or podfuk (UserVFS) using the CODA driver. I'm still early in my > > development process, but I've run into one frustrating problem. While > > testing my code, I have started causing ls to hang. > > > > It keeps the directory open, which means I can't do things like, oh, > > unmount the filesystem. :-) Anyone have any suggestions on recovering > > gracefully when this happens short of rebooting (which is what I do > > now)? Basically, 'ls' hangs, and can't be killed (even kill -9) and > > 'lsof' lists the directory as open (which is furthered confirmed by > > umount complaining about the filesystem being busy).