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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is there a mount but no unmount?
Message-ID: <5671@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 00:12:25 GMT
References: <4643@garfield.UUCP> <242@ssbell.UUCP> <2810@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Keywords: mount unmount path
Summary: It can work, since it does already.

In article <2810@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub) writes:
>In article <242@ssbell.UUCP> chris@ssbell.UUCP (0000-Chris Olson) writes:
>>Does anyone out there know of any GOOD reason that commodore
>>forgot to supply an unmount command to go with the mount?
>
>Imagine the following scenario: your Amiga has several processes running
>which have at one time or another accessed the mounted drive in one way or
>another and thereby created a lock on a diretory or file on that drive.
>
	He goes on to suppose that these programs have obtained locks on
various files on drives that you wish to unmount.  What do these programs do
if they wish to access the files on these now unmounted volumes?

	Well, they'd probably do what happens if you attempt to ask for a
file on an unmounted floppy:  Throw up a requester for the volume.

	I don't see any problem with the idea.  Am I forgetting something?

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