On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:35:04PM +0300, Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* > Salah Coronya wrote: > >There are patches in -mm for revokeat()/frevoke(), which can be used to > >implement exactly that. If a device "vanishes" (CD is removed in the > >middle of loading, USB pend rive yanked out the middle of I/O, NFS > >server thats gone MIA), A user-space program (maybe HAL) could iterate > >over the open files and revoke() them, at which point the system can be > >cleanly unmounted.
Bull. It will not help you at all if a syscall is stuck. > Sounds promising. Is there any glibc version that implements these > syscalls (googling for 'glibc' and 'frevoke' didn't help)? I'd like to > implement and test this on my Linux box with HAL. Implementation that is there in -mm is broken; see discussion on the list. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
