On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:54:07AM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> > > Mounting (or replacing) on an current mount path, busy or nor, wil really
> > > lead to bizzare and damaging senerios later.
> >
> > "Doctor, it hurts when I do it"
>
> "Doctor, I've been doing it for years and now all of a sudden
> it's changed and everything's screwed up and it hurts."
>
> There are loads of us that have been using UNIX for years and
> are expecting multiple mounts to fail. We expect to be able
> to try to mount a directory and see if it fails.
There is alot of undefined semantics of mounts for example I cannot remember
that the way permissions of the directory `below' the mountpoint influence
access to the mounted directory is documented. Can be fun on Solaris ...
Ralf
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