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- From: bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Dismounting a Device?
- Message-ID: <1gok05INNm6k@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 01:09:25 GMT
- References: <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1gj811INNg16@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <1gn66gINN51f@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- In article <1gn66gINN51f@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ry41@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Moellemann) writes:
- >In article <1gj811INNg16@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder) writes:
- >>In article <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> ad010@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen) writes:
- >
- >>>So I used it only a few times (but without problems) when testing
- >>>a new edited mountlist without willing to reboot after every correction.
- >
- >>I can't see any reason to not use it. You'd have to be REAL stupid to mess
- >>anything up by re-assigning a device. Maybe something like:
- >>assign SYS: NULL: :-)
- >
- >You are not a programmer 8-) Things like that are not really dangerous.
- >
- >"Assign Dismount" removes data structures from the system which _might_ be
- >still used by the handler/filesystem.
- >
- >So use it with care if you know, what you are doing - do not use it otherwise.
- >(Or be prepared to crash 8-)
-
- That's just what I was saying. You'd have to be pretty slow if you try
- to dismount something that was still being used. The sys: null: thing
- was just a stupid attempt at a joke.
-