> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Dale Amon wrote:
> >
> > That would mean that your file browser would instantly change
> > to show a file deletion, even if the deletion was done by a
> > different user on command line login.
>
> Note that the poll() approach would simply mean that the file browser
> would have each directory that it displays open - and running poll on
> them. Whenever poll indicates that the directory changed, it re-reads the
> directory and updates as necessary.
This means that if it displays a CD-ROM or a automount directory it cannot be
umounted, which would be annoying.
Hmm, a O_WEAK flag needed? This could be hard to fit into the existing
reference-count based VFS though.
Another alternative would a layer like supermount that allows umount with
active descriptors, but this would be a rather radical change from the
sysadmin level (more radical than the IRIX solution, which uses a daemon
and some kernel hack)
-Andi
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