Re: closefd: closes a file of any process

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 04:35:28 EST


On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> I don't see the use. My processes will get killed (or much worse, will
> screw up (badly, remember Murphy?)) when their files dissapear under
> them. Sure, being able to kill(2) a process regardless of where it hung
> would be nice. But is it really worth the cost?
>

If the processes cost some abstract $1000 and the filesystem that we need
to take away from under them costs some abstract $1001 then it is worth
the cost of typing "umount -f" command (unless the terminal you type it at
charges more than 10c per each character).

Regards,
Tigran

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