From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 4:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7A014D70; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 04:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.143]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA3AF3; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:18:14 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA24534; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:16:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:16:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Martin Blapp Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umount(8) or unmount(2) ? Message-ID: <19991003131614.B24384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991003 04:18], Martin Blapp (mb@imp.ch) wrote: > >Since about 5 weeks I'm working on sanity checks and bug fixes >for umount(8), mount(8) and mount_xxx(8). Poul Henning told >me to mail to cvs-committers too, cause many clued people read it. And don't bother to read -hackers. >You'll find my patch and the readme for it on : > >http://www.attic.ch/patches/MOUNTPATCH-CURRENT-02101999-01 >http://www.attic.ch/patches/MOUNTPATCH-README > >I've implemented this as an idea from phk and it works very well. If we >unmount a hanged nfs-mount - it hangs no in kernel (if busy), not in >userland. This is a little step forward. Some side-effects of this >part of my patch are, that some other PR's are fixed too : > >o [1999/02/03] bin/9893 NFS umount of regular file impossible >s [1995/11/27] bin/841 stale nfs mounts cannot be umounted People who think this is about NFS mounting only have obviously not read the README on the sire Martin supplied. I urge a person who bothers to comment on this, should read the README first and [politely] discuss any points with Martin on this list. For all I know about this subject I can at least say I like the proposed sanity-checks. Sanity-checking is something we can always use. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message