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Re: attach -e

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Tue Dec 2 16:03:08 2008

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:02:23 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:44:00PM -0500, Bill Cattey wrote:
> While we're thinking about attach, I'd like to re-ask:
> 
> Should we find a way to enable the old behavior:
> 	detach foo -- makes the binaries I didn't want go away
> instead of:
> 	detach foo  -- damn!  the binaries are still there.
> 	attach -r foo -- damn!  I have to re-attach to get this feature.
> 	attach foo; attach -r foo -- I WANTED "detach foo"!

`man attach` tells me that -r has no effect for AFS filesystems.
Is that what you meant?  I don't understand what these command
sequences are intended to accomplish.

Greg

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