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Re: Bash and "hogging" directories
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash and "hogging" directories |
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:49:38 -0400 |
>
> [root@tux /]# umount /usr/share/timidity
> umount: /usr/share/timidity: device is busy
>
> It is busy because bash has somehow "hogged" the directory because I had
> cd'ed
> into it (i.e. cd /usr/share/timidity):
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> bash 4746 joe cwd DIR 7,1 4096 98853
> /usr/share/timidity
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> Could you please prevent bash from "hogging" the directory or marking it as
> in
> use/busy? Is it really neccessary to tell Linux that the directory is in use
> when all I have done is cd into it?
This is not a bash issue.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/