On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:40:43AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Anyway, what the hell for? It's more complex and buys you nothing > useful. BTW, what it gives you is an extra headache for scenarios like task A: write(fd, ...) task B: /* shares descriptor table with A */ close(fd) task C: umount(<mountpoint of tree where fd is>) ... task A: still writing At the very least, you want "that thing is still busy" on normal umount - we are still in the middle of write(2) and hell knows how long it's going to last. So you need to play with refcount of vfsmount in a very nasty way, for all your pains. Again, what for? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
