hiding files under a mount point.

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <MITCH.91Mar26123609 at hq.af.mil>, mitch at hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
|> Just write your own library routines that quickly unmount the fs, open the
|> file, and then remount.

  This will only work if no process has any files open on the filesystem
you're trying to unmount.  In the case of a filesystem like /usr, it is very
unlikely that no one will have any open files on it when you go to unmount it.

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