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From: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is there a mount but no unmount?
Message-ID: <2821@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 88 05:29:20 GMT
References: <4643@garfield.UUCP> <242@ssbell.UUCP> <2810@tekigm2.TEK.COM> <5671@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: mount unmount path

In article <5671@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
<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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Ok, I'll try it, then. Give me a day or two and I'll let you know what
happens.

Phil

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