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From: Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <maxdamage@aladin.ro>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forced unmounting for removable devices
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:35:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D83528.8090204@aladin.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D622A5.2000205@aladin.ro>

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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.
> 

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 15:35 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 [this message]
2007-08-31 15:38   ` Al Viro
2007-08-31 15:38 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu

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