Re: RFC: Kernel changes that may affect desktops

[Matthew Garrett <mjg redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01:45PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:

> Isn't there "Save As..." for saving it? If not, I smell a bug 
> report. When I'm working over  sshfs and the network goes down, 
> my editor still works with the file, the actual save is what 
> fails.

It depends on what resources you have open on the hardware. If part of 
your application is on the disk that's about to be disconnected, then 
you have problems.

> Umm, Windows locks files when they're opened. AFAIK, Linux 
> doesn't enforce this.
> 
> A similar problem is this:
> 
> mkdir foo
> touch foo/bar
> kwrite foo/bar &
> rm -rf foo
> 
> Should kwrite be killed because rm killed the directory?

No, because it still has a reference to it. Unmount works differently to 
remove.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org