Re: [Mingw-msys] Why map root to both / and /usr?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On 12:30:03 pm 2005-04-18 Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >  The only way to umount is to remove the entry in /etc/fstab.  For
> >  /usr, after your change is implemented, assuming I accept it,
> >  removing /usr from /etc/fstab will cause the automounted /usr to
> >  take effect.  You should not need to be concerned with needing to
> ``lock down'' the mounted
> >  entry.
>
> As an aside from the original topic, but related in the above
> context, am I
> correct in the observation that the mount table is locked when the
> first running instance of MSYS loads msys-1.0.dll?  IOW, if I start a
> second instance of MSYS, after modifying /etc/fstab in the first
> instance, but without terminating that first instance, the changes to
> /etc/fstab will not
> take effect in the second instance?
>

Hmm...  Luckily I had a hung ssh process that caused a similar effect.  You
should be able to see the changes to /etc/fstab in the other sessions.  The
hung processes must have prevented the thread from activating.  YAB.

Earnie

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