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Re: Umount not being done

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In article <j09fr2$5i8$2@dont-email.me>, J G Miller  <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at 13:55:27h +0000, NotBoB advised:
> 
> > I know this seems silly, but this feeble geezer mind has more than once
> > forgotten the simple fact you can't be in the dir your trying to umount.
> 
> This is a good point.
> 
> Also say for example you go to a directory which is under a mount point.
> 
> You then fire up an X terminal or possibly some other X program,
> and then cd out of that directory and try to unmount the device.
> 
> It will still register as busy until you close the programs started
> from within that directory.

What's the official way to call umount so it removes the added dir under
/media , or is that done automatically?  If automatically, is it by
polling or is there a hook in e.g. umount?

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Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-21 08:52 -0400
  Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-21 14:48 +0100
    Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 08:39 -0400
      Re: Umount not being done Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-22 14:11 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-23 04:01 -0400
  Re: Umount not being done notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-21 13:55 +0000
    Re: Umount not being done J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-21 15:15 +0000
      Re: Umount not being done ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-07-21 14:47 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 15:12 +0100
    Re: Umount not being done Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 08:56 -0400
      Re: Umount not being done J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 13:18 +0000
      Re: Umount not being done Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 14:42 +0100
        Re: Umount not being done ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-07-22 11:30 -0400
        Re: Umount not being done "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-22 17:45 -0500

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