Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:17:42 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: multimounting cdroms ??? |
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:54:07AM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> > > Mounting (or replacing) on an current mount path, busy or nor, wil really > > > lead to bizzare and damaging senerios later. > > > > "Doctor, it hurts when I do it" > > "Doctor, I've been doing it for years and now all of a sudden > it's changed and everything's screwed up and it hurts." > > There are loads of us that have been using UNIX for years and > are expecting multiple mounts to fail. We expect to be able > to try to mount a directory and see if it fails.
There is alot of undefined semantics of mounts for example I cannot remember that the way permissions of the directory `below' the mountpoint influence access to the mounted directory is documented. Can be fun on Solaris ...
Ralf
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