From: Nick Hilliard (nick@symphony.mp.ucc.ie)
Date: 05/07/93


From: nick@symphony.mp.ucc.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Subject: Re: umounting procfs?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 14:19:53 GMT

Scott Telford (s.telford@ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Seems like a dumb question, but...

: Running 0.99.9, I have a procfs in my /etc/fstab thus:

: none /proc proc defaults

: However, if I do "umount /proc", I get the "busy" error. I've also
: tried mounting it read-only. I'm using the 0.99.6 mount/umount. What's
: the secret? I'm sure this used to work...

If you're running the kmem ps suite, try 'fuser /proc/*'. It'll show you all
the processes which have files open in /proc. It's most likely to be
something like xsysinfo or syslogd that's causing the problem.

Nick