On Saturday 01 November 2008 01:58, Rob Landley wrote: > > > A process has a file open in it. The filesystem is pinned until the > > > process closes that file, unless you want to force the unmount (so the > > > file starts getting a -ESOMETHINGOROTHER). > > > > This is not a problem. > > killall5 -KILL closes a lot of open files. > > If any of the ancestral processes that execed your shutdown thingy didn't > close a filehandle (and didn't set it close on exec), your shutdown thing > could itself have a file open and not know about it. PID 1 has no ancestors > that have execed it, it came from the kernel.
Is there not a way to close all filehandles you inherited from your parent? -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
