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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] umount.2: Correct the description of MNT_DETACH
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:04:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhp12a2i.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)


I recently realized that I had been reasoning improperly about what
umount(MNT_DETACH) did based on an insufficient description in
the umount.2 man page, that matched my intuition but not the
implementation.

When there are no submounts MNT_DETACH is essentially harmless to
applications.  Where there are submounts MNT_DETACH changes what
is visible to applications using the detach directories.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 man2/umount.2 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/umount.2 b/man2/umount.2
index 5ff88152c738..aea39d8306fe 100644
--- a/man2/umount.2
+++ b/man2/umount.2
@@ -66,9 +66,10 @@ This can cause data loss.
 (Only for NFS mounts.)
 .TP
 .BR MNT_DETACH " (since Linux 2.4.11)"
-Perform a lazy unmount: make the mount point unavailable for
-new accesses, and actually perform the unmount when the mount point
-ceases to be busy.
+Perform a lazy unmount: make the mount point unavailable for new
+accesses, immediately disconnect the filesystem and all filesystems
+mounted below it from each other and from the mount table, and
+actually perform the unmount when the mount point ceases to be busy.
 .TP
 .BR MNT_EXPIRE " (since Linux 2.6.8)"
 Mark the mount point as expired.
-- 
1.9.1


             reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30  1:04 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2014-09-30  1:28 ` [PATCH] umount.2: Correct the description of MNT_DETACH Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-30  2:15   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-09-30  2:16     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-28 13:43       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-10-28 17:31         ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-10-28 17:33           ` [PATCH] umount.2: Document the effect of shared subtrees on umount Eric W. Biederman
2015-02-02 15:36             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-02 15:34 ` [PATCH] umount.2: Correct the description of MNT_DETACH Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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