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From: "Dan Maas" <dmaas@dcine.com>
To: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forced umount (was lazy umount)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:15:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a0c01c140a8$92b45620$1a01a8c0@allyourbase> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.d1dh3vv.fmmj8f@ifi.uio.no> <fa.e30ljmv.19jambt@ifi.uio.no>

> Imagine (common error for me):
>
> cd /cdrom
> kwintv &
> [work]
>
> I now want to umount cdrom. How do I do it? Do you suggest each app
> to have "cd /" menu entry?
> Pavel

No but now that you mention it, it might be a good idea for GUI programs to
chdir("/") by default immediately on startup. (and fork/daemonize so they
don't disappear if you accidentally close the xterms you used to start them)

Regards,
Dan


       reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.d1dh3vv.fmmj8f@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.e30ljmv.19jambt@ifi.uio.no>
2001-09-19  1:15   ` Dan Maas [this message]
2001-09-19  1:19     ` Mike Fedyk
2001-09-19 10:20       ` Andreas Schwab
2001-09-14 19:01 [PATCH] lazy umount (1/4) Alexander Viro
2001-09-16 16:37 ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-17  6:57   ` Forced umount (was lazy umount) Ville Herva
2001-09-17  7:03     ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-09-17  8:38       ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-17 10:21         ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-17 10:47           ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-09-17 23:21             ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-17 23:23             ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-18  1:04               ` Alex Stewart
2001-09-18 20:19                 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-17  8:29   ` Xavier Bestel
2001-09-17  8:39     ` Alexander Viro

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