From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
luto@myrealbox.com, aebr@win.tue.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:35:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050103093545.GA8524@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050102210536.GF4183@stusta.de>
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
>
> A command line user only needs to know about fuser, and in the unlikely
> case if the race condition Oliver thought of occurs he'll note since
> umount will give an error message.
There's a much more interesting race: another process succesfully umounting
the thing while this one's asleep.
--
Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-02 19:37 the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 20:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-02 20:15 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 20:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-01-02 20:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-02 20:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-02 21:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 9:35 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2005-01-03 19:14 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-01-02 20:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 1:36 ` Puneet Vyas
2005-01-02 20:36 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] <fa.foeqpaf.nlmd9n@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.d9avdr3.1jm46gr@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-03 1:17 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] <fa.iji5lco.m6nrs@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.fv0gsro.143iuho@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-02 12:38 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 20:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-03 0:37 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 22:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-04 20:28 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-05 2:12 ` Bodo Eggert
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-31 17:41 William
2004-12-31 17:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-31 17:48 ` Ush
2004-12-31 18:22 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31 18:31 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-12-31 21:48 ` Tom Felker
2005-01-01 0:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-31 17:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-01 19:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-12-31 17:51 ` Gene Heskett
2005-01-16 4:39 ` Greg Stark
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