Forcefully unmounting devfs...

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Dec 21 15:23:55 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:32:34PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:

> >Either disable forceful unmount of devfs, which makes sense from
> >KISS and many other principles, and then jail wardens will have to
> >find other ways to clean up their jails

> >The more I think about it, the more I lean towards the first option.
> >
> 
> I think that I'd agree here from the point of view of finding an 
> expedient way to keep from shooting off feet.

Unfortunately that's going to cause me a fair amount of pain, unless
there's a simple way to kill all processes running in a given chroot
(NB: I don't currently use jails because a number of ports won't build
in a jail) so I can free up the devfs and then unmount it.

Kris
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