Re: core statement on fexecve, O_EXEC, and O_SEARCH

2012-12-08 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:46 AM, matthew green m...@eterna.com.au wrote: I've reread the whole thread but I don't understand how fch* and fexec* differ. As far as I can see all they cause the same sort of problems. So, a solution should be the same for all of them. AFAIK (i didn't write a

Re: Making forced unmounts work

2012-12-08 Thread J. Hannken-Illjes
The more I think the more I just want to remove forced unmounts. To take some examples: - A hard,nointr NFS mount hanging because the server stops responding. Even if it were possible to use fstrans_ here (and it would become ugly) it would not help. The root node of the mount will likely be

Re: Making forced unmounts work

2012-12-08 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article 31490263-5a8e-411a-bb57-f7fc5cffc...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de, J. Hannken-Illjes hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de wrote: The more I think the more I just want to remove forced unmounts. I think that any operation that cannot be undone (and requires reboot to be undone) makes the OS less resilient to