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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 13:38:29 +0100, Bodo Eggert said:

> Maybe it's possible to extend the semantics of umount -l to change all
> cwds under that mountpoint to be deleted directories which will no
> longer cause the mountpoint to be busy (e.g. by redirecting them to a
> special inode on initramfs). Most applications can cope with that (if
> not, they're buggy),

You mean that a program is *buggy* if it does:

	cwd("/home/user");
	/* do some stuff while we get our cwd ripped out from under us */
	file = open("./.mycconfrc");

and expects the file to be opened in /home/user???

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