forceful unmount

RPICHAI.IN.ORACLE.COM (RPICHAI.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.com)
21 Dec 98 21:10:32 +0330


Hi,

Why does LInux not support forceful unmount of file systems? Other
Operating systems
do support this feature; whenever they forcefully unmount a fs, they bother to
send a signal that
where operating on that file system so that those system calls return with a
failure value(-1)

Regds
Raghav

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