Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | | Subject | Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users | | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:34:16 +0100 |
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Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 21:11 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Well, umount -l can be handy, but it does not allow you to get your CD > > back from the drive. > > > > umount --kill that kills whoever is responsible for filesystem being > > busy would solve part of the problem (that can be done in userspace, > > today). > >... > > What's wrong with > > fuser -k /mnt && umount /mnt
1. Would need suid. 2. Is a mindless slaughter of important processes. 3. Is a race condition.
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