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Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:59:20 +0000
Subject:	RE: 1.7.7: Cannot unmount certain user bind mounts
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On Sep 04 01:50 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep  3 17:19, John Carey wrote:
> > A user mount whose only non-default option is "bind"
> > cannot be unmounted if its target is a system mount;
> > please see the end of this email for a test case.
> >
> > It looks to me as if the MOUNT_SYSTEM bit is copied from
> > the bind target by mount() in winsup/cygwin/mount.cc.
>=20
> Right.  I fixed this in CVS.  I also fixed the problem that bind mounts
> in the user's fstab file were preserving the targets MOUNT_SYSTEM flag.
> And while I was at it, I found that `mount -a' also adds the
> MOUNT_SYSTEM flag if the added mount is from /etc/fstab.  That wasn't
> intended either.  Every mount added via mount(2) is supposed to be a
> user mount.

Thanks for the fix!

-- John

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