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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: hiding files under a mount point.
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.140229.3474@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 14:02:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.045734.5114@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> <MITCH.91Mar26123609@hq.af.mil>
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In article <MITCH.91Mar26123609@hq.af.mil>, mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
|> Just write your own library routines that quickly unmount the fs, open the
|> file, and then remount.

  This will only work if no process has any files open on the filesystem
you're trying to unmount.  In the case of a filesystem like /usr, it is very
unlikely that no one will have any open files on it when you go to unmount it.

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