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Re: Updated patches for mount, add umount


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Updated patches for mount, add umount
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 23:53:38 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Justus Winter, le Thu 04 Jul 2013 23:30:49 +0200, a écrit :
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-07-04 22:55:51)
> > Justus Winter, le Thu 04 Jul 2013 18:45:35 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Note that without a
> > > mtab or /proc/mounts file the umount utility is not very useful,
> > 
> > Mmm? In theory it should easily be able to unmount anything by just
> > providing the mount point, shouldn't it?
> 
> Yes, that's the half of umount that would work.

Ok, good.

> But umount also allows
> one to specify the device instead of the mount point and I do not see
> how to properly implement this without someone (like the mtab
> translator) providing the mapping from devices to mount points and
> vice versa.

Sure!

Samuel



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