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

[Frank van Maarseveen]

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
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