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authorKarel Zak2017-06-06 12:05:14 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-06-06 12:05:21 +0200
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parentumount: never 'stat' the path when "-c" is given. (diff)
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umount: add note about NFS and -c to umount.8
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/umount.8 b/sys-utils/umount.8
index f3f419acc..80df50cc5 100644
--- a/sys-utils/umount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/umount.8
@@ -75,9 +75,17 @@ This option is only supported on systems where /etc/mtab is a symlink
to /proc/mounts.
.TP
.BR \-c , " \-\-no\-canonicalize"
-Do not canonicalize paths. For more details about this option see the
+Do not canonicalize paths. The paths canonicalization is based on
+.BR stat (2)
+and
+.BR readlink (2)
+system calls. These system calls may hang in some cases (for example on NFS if
+server is not available). The option has to be used with canonical path to the
+mount point.
+
+For more details about this option see the
.BR mount (8)
-man page. Note that \fBumount\fR does not pass this option to the
+man page. Note that \fBumount\fR does not pass this option to the
.BI /sbin/umount. type
helpers.
.TP