Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:
> Werner Almesberger wrote:
> > Your original proposal, moving to nullfs, gives you simply the possibility
> > to have a "hard" or a "soft" failure. The basic assumption is still that
> > the program didn't really need to access the file in the first place.
> > So I'm still wondering if a clean exit/kill wouldn't be better in almost
> > all cases.
> revoke() without killing the process would be quite useful for floppies
> removed from the drive...
Which presuposes applications capable of handling said event gracefully.
I.e., zilch.
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