On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 16:23, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> What about the many hundred counter-examples (e.g. umount gives EBUSY,
umount -f.
> kill can't kill processes in uninterruptible sleep, etc, etc)? Why the
In these cases the kernel infrastructure doesn't support the ability to
recover from such a state, very different from stopping a user doing
something it can handle perfectly well.
You'll find plenty of people who believe the umount behaviour is
incorrect (and it should just GC them) as wel as the fact that
uninterruptible sleep is a bad idea
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