Re: Komba..

[Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 15:13, Paul Cupis wrote:
> > Because the user is no longer logged in.  The mounts mounted under
> > their home directories are of no use to the system or any other user,
> > until they log back in.
>
> What if they are still running processes which might be using those
> mounts?

Okay, how best to handle this.  If a server is running 24/7 for years, and 
users have long since been deleted, why should their shares still be mounted?

> In Microsoft Windows, AFAIK, when one logs off, all of their user
> processes are terminated. This is not necessarily the case on
> non-Microsoft systems. Assuming that it is the case is wrong.

Well, we should be able to detect if 
1) the user has active processes
2) the user is logged in (Actually that will be covered by 1)

If not, the mount can be reaped.

Or, at least we can make it a configuration option, so that the person who is 
installing the package can choose the behavior.

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