Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:26:51 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, Colin <cwass99@home.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access floppy rw to lock system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001132320590.71214-100000@bunny.monsterbymistake.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000113193231.22457F-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: <snippy snip snip> |> But I will concede that doing that approximately silly thing |> shouldn't hang the system. I'd probably vote that the driver should |> test for write protect, and the mount(2) call should act as though |> "MT_RDONLY" had been specified. | |Exactly. If it's read-only media, it should fail when being mounted |read-write, or default to ro. | |- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ |---------------------------------------------------------------------- |iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com |Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 |---------------------------------------------------------------------- | This is what I thought would have been 'correct' behaviour and which is why I asked on this list (my feeble mail list searches turned up nothing) FYI: I have been informed that this is no longer an issue in 4.0 due to a rewrite of the driver. Cheers to all who code those things! P. doctor it hurts bad when I do this! D. don't do that then ... next please. thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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