From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <maxdamage@aladin.ro>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forced unmounting for removable devices
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:38:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831153815.GM21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D83528.8090204@aladin.ro>
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:35:04PM +0300, Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
> Salah Coronya wrote:
> >There are patches in -mm for revokeat()/frevoke(), which can be used to
> >implement exactly that. If a device "vanishes" (CD is removed in the
> >middle of loading, USB pend rive yanked out the middle of I/O, NFS
> >server thats gone MIA), A user-space program (maybe HAL) could iterate
> >over the open files and revoke() them, at which point the system can be
> >cleanly unmounted.
Bull. It will not help you at all if a syscall is stuck.
> Sounds promising. Is there any glibc version that implements these
> syscalls (googling for 'glibc' and 'frevoke' didn't help)? I'd like to
> implement and test this on my Linux box with HAL.
Implementation that is there in -mm is broken; see discussion on the list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 1:51 Forced unmounting for removable devices Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-08-30 3:14 ` Salah Coronya
2007-08-31 15:35 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-08-31 15:38 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-08-31 15:38 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
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