Re: the umount() saga for regular linux desktop users

[Oliver Neukum]

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.

	Regards
			Oliver
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