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

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:41:02PM +0000, William wrote:

> Regularly, when attempting to umount() a filesystem I receive 'device is busy' 
> errors. The only way (that I have found) to solve these problems is to go on 
> a journey into processland and kill all the guilty ones that have tied 
> themselves to the filesystem concerned.

Do you know about the existence of the MNT_DETACH flag of umount(2),
or the -l option of umount(8)?

It seems that does at least some of the things you are asking for.

Andries
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