Re: /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:36, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > (Then, of course, there's FUSE.  Does killing the FUSE helper
> > prevent the mount from being umounted?)
>
> No.  On clean exit (via INT, TERM, HUP handlers installed by library)
> it will lazy umount itself.  Violent death of a filesystem daemon will
> leave the mount intact, but umountable.

Ok, so it sounds like the proper init-go-byebye procedure once namespaces get 
deployed is for init to kill all child processes, umount -a what's left in 
its namespace, and all is well.  So no changes are needed to the umount -a 
implementation...

Rob
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