Re: rm patch suggestion

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:25:50PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> Does this mean that translators can refuse to go away, even with -f?
> I think I see another line of abuse for creative users..

No translator can refuse a kill -9, and no translator can avoid being
detached from the parent filesystem on the parent filesystems will.

However, settrans -g is just a friendly request to leave, while -fg is an
unfriendly request to leave ("go even if you have live users").  -d means to
the parent filesystems: "detach it from yourself" (the parent filesystem
itself might ignore the request of course :)

kill -9 is the very only way to really, really get rid off a translator, but
we want -fg, -g, -TERM and everything to work as expected of course (for
trusted translators anyway).

If in doubt, read the source! :)

Thanks,
Marcus

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