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Date:      Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:11:23 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Teaching mount(8) to use nmount() 
Message-ID:  <13417.1128935483@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:01:37 BST." <200510101001.38294.dfr@nlsystems.com> 

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In message <200510101001.38294.dfr@nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson writes:

>> We could do that.  I had some thoughts on this:
>> -> In the future, we want to make it difficult for people to add new
>>    external mount programs [...]
>
>The mount program isn't always just doing argument parsing.

Agreed, that's why it didn't say "impossible" :-)

I think we are basically in agreement here, the point is to avoid
pointless mount_foo(8) programs.

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