Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:16:14 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umount(8) or unmount(2) ? Message-ID: <19991003131614.B24384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9910022341350.20259-100000@mephisto.imp.ch> References: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9910022341350.20259-100000@mephisto.imp.ch>
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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; 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
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