On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Steve> Oh, I understand how it would happen that a file in /usr is > Steve> actively in use in this scenario; I'm just questioning why it > Steve> shouldn't be considered a bug in whatever program is still > Steve> running and referencing NSS at the time 'umount /usr' is > Steve> called. There are quite a lot of NSS and PAM modules which > Steve> depend on files in /usr, and which might be optionally > Steve> referenced by applications in /bin or /sbin. It would take > Steve> some time to move all libraries that anyone has written an NSS > Steve> module for -- even longer wrt PAM -- and it's not clear to me > Steve> that this is an appropriate solution. > Do you have anything running and using RPC? A user-space NFS daemon, > maybe? How is that relevant? I hardly think 'umount /usr' should be called while /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd is running. And why does RPC care about username resolution? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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