Re: /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces

From: Rob Landley (rob_at_landley.net)
Date: 11/01/05

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    To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:	Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:44:49 -0600

    On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:36, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
    > > (Then, of course, there's FUSE. Does killing the FUSE helper
    > > prevent the mount from being umounted?)
    >
    > No. On clean exit (via INT, TERM, HUP handlers installed by library)
    > it will lazy umount itself. Violent death of a filesystem daemon will
    > leave the mount intact, but umountable.

    Ok, so it sounds like the proper init-go-byebye procedure once namespaces get
    deployed is for init to kill all child processes, umount -a what's left in
    its namespace, and all is well. So no changes are needed to the umount -a
    implementation...

    Rob
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