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Re: Updated patches for mount, add umount


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Updated patches for mount, add umount
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:09:17 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Justus Winter, le Fri 05 Jul 2013 00:04:24 +0200, a écrit :
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-07-04 23:53:38)
> > 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.
> 
> No, because one cannot tell if a given path is a mount point or the
> device without consulting the mtab file.

Ah, right, damn :/

So we really need /proc/mounts for that too.

Samuel



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