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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is there a mount but no unmount?
Message-ID: <8804140352.AA10165@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 04:26:00 GMT
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>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.
>
>Let's also say that at the current time there are outstanding locks on that
>drive, but you want to unmount it. 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, you maintain the lock just as if a disk had been removed from a
1020 drive.  If the that volume is needed, the OS will display a requestor
asking for volume XXX in any drive...Pop to the background CLI and mount it...
or select CANCEL and the task should fail.

Floyd Vest
Auburn University
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