[linux-help] Re: floppy problem

[Tom Hull <thull2@xxxxxxx>]

bruce wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2003 12:06 am, you wrote:
> 
> In my case with mcopy,  it was still stuck the next day, so a timeout 
> was not going to help.  I shut down everything but the terminal window 
> (in KDE) and it was still stuck.  After I shut down KDE and restarted 
> it I was able to use the floppy.  Not having to reboot helped me keep 
> my faith in the integrity of the linux kernel.

then there may be some interference between 2+ related processes that
are using the floppy. this command could probably be cleaned up a bit,
but to find out which processes are using the floppy you could do
something like:

   ls -l /proc/*/cwd /proc/*/fd/* | fgrep /mnt/floppy

it wouldn't be hard (and would be useful) to turn this into a program
that would just print out the process ids or invoke ps with them. this
sort of thing would also be useful for umount device busy failures.

> bruce

also, regarding the previous question on process relationships, there's
another command called pstree.

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