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Diffstat (limited to 'man2/umount.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/umount.2 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/umount.2 b/man2/umount.2 index cba0abc..07e3a93 100644 --- a/man2/umount.2 +++ b/man2/umount.2 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ .\" 2008-10-06, mtk: Created this as a new page by splitting .\" umount/umount2 material out of mount.2 .\" -.TH umount 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH umount 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME umount, umount2 \- unmount filesystem .SH LIBRARY @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B "#include <sys/mount.h>" -.PP +.P .BI "int umount(const char *" target ); .BI "int umount2(const char *" target ", int " flags ); .fi @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ remove the attachment of the (topmost) filesystem mounted on .\" Note: the kernel naming differs from the glibc naming .\" umount2 is the glibc name for what the kernel now calls umount .\" and umount is the glibc name for oldumount -.PP +.P Appropriate privilege (Linux: the .B CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) is required to unmount filesystems. -.PP +.P Linux 2.1.116 added the .BR umount2 () system call, which, like @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ and .B MNT_EXPIRE .\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10092 are available since glibc 2.11. -.PP +.P The original .BR umount () function was called as \fIumount(device)\fP and would return @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ This means that .BR umount () of any peer in a set of shared mounts will cause all of its peers to be unmounted and all of their slaves to be unmounted as well. -.PP +.P This propagation of unmount activity can be particularly surprising on systems where every mount is shared by default. On such systems, @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ recursively bind mounting the root directory of the filesystem onto a subdirectory and then later unmounting that subdirectory with .B MNT_DETACH will cause every mount in the mount namespace to be lazily unmounted. -.PP +.P To ensure .BR umount () does not propagate in this fashion, |