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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is there a mount but no unmount?
Message-ID: <1823@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 19:16:07 GMT
References: <4643@garfield.UUCP> <242@ssbell.UUCP> <2810@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: mount unmount path

In article ... phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (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?

> How do you notify each process that the file or directory lock on the
> device you are going to unmount is about to be invalidated?

You don't. Just as you can't remove a file that's got locks on it, you don't
let anyone unmount a device that's got locks on.

It seems to work fine for UNIX.
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