mount points not special

[Art Neilson]

This is perfectly normal, what do you expect to happen if you remove a
directory a filesystem expects to be mounted on ?  When mount tries to
mount the filsystem on a non-existent directory, it of course will fail.
Your best defense against rm is to set the directory and file permissions
such that they cannot be rm'ed by your users.
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Arthur W. Neilson III		| ARPA: art at pilikia.pegasus.com
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