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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:28:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104870524.8346.27.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501022243.j02MhANg004075@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 17:43 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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???

Yes, of course.  Any program that doesn't check the return value of a
system call is buggy.  Unless it really, really doesn't care - clearly
not the case here.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.iji5lco.m6nrs@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.fv0gsro.143iuho@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-02 12:38   ` the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users 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 [this message]
2005-01-05  2:12         ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found] <fa.foeqpaf.nlmd9n@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.d9avdr3.1jm46gr@ifi.uio.no>
2005-01-03  1:17   ` Bodo Eggert
2005-01-02 19:37 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
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
  -- 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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