lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Jan]   [3]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:05:36PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:56:50PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > Okay, so the right solution is probably something more like
> >
> > while umount /mnt; do
> > fuser -km -TERM /mnt
> > sleep 1
> > fuser -km /mnt
> > done
>
> A command line user only needs to know about fuser, and in the unlikely
> case if the race condition Oliver thought of occurs he'll note since
> umount will give an error message.

There's a much more interesting race: another process succesfully umounting
the thing while this one's asleep.

--
Frank
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:09    [W:0.047 / U:0.024 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site