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SubjectRe: Can't umount after SIGKILL
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Brian Geisel wrote:

>Greetings,
> I have found that if I have a process which is running on a mounted
>filesystem, and I kill -9 that process, the filesystem is unable to be
>umounted. It thinks the filesystem is still in use. /proc/*/cwd includes
>nothing in the directory, and all the processes in there were certainly
>killed anyway. Is this something that's broken, or should umount allow -f
>(whether that's kernel or app I'm also not sure)?

What kernel?

I've had that happen in 2.0.36 several times recently with my
CDROM using SCSI emulation.

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