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@@ -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,