Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:35:28 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: closefd: closes a file of any process |
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > I don't see the use. My processes will get killed (or much worse, will > screw up (badly, remember Murphy?)) when their files dissapear under > them. Sure, being able to kill(2) a process regardless of where it hung > would be nice. But is it really worth the cost? >
If the processes cost some abstract $1000 and the filesystem that we need to take away from under them costs some abstract $1001 then it is worth the cost of typing "umount -f" command (unless the terminal you type it at charges more than 10c per each character).
Regards, Tigran
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