Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I almost hate to suggest this... Message-ID: <199812190955.BAA07155@apollo.backplane.com> References: <65265.914051066@zippy.cdrom.com>
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:Index: Makefile
:===================================================================
:RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/mount/Makefile,v
:retrieving revision 1.7
:diff -u -u -r1.7 Makefile
:--- Makefile 1998/03/08 14:50:00 1.7
:+++ Makefile 1998/12/19 06:58:21
:@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
: MAN8= mount.8
: # We do NOT install the getmntopts.3 man page.
:
:+LINKS= ${BINDIR}/mount ${BINDIR}/mount_ufs
:+
: # We support the ROOTSLICE_HUNT hack
: CFLAGS+=-DROOTSLICE_HUNT
:
:
:The idea here is that there's a mount_foo for every value of foo
:EXCEPT for ufs, an omission which has always bugged me. It makes the
:shell script writer's job harder since you can't just cons together
:"mount_", an fs type and some device/mountpoint args to build a mount
:command for any arbitrary fs type - you have to special-case UFS just
:for lack of this one silly link and plus it just looks less orthogonal
:to have a single exception.
:
:Not that this is the poor-man's work-around. A more proper fix
:would entail hacking mount(8) to recognise the argv(0) == "mount_ufs"
:case and spit out a usage message in the event that you just
:say "mount_ufs" without args, just as the other mount_foo options do.
:As a symlink, it still functions properly as mount_ufs but the default
:argless behavior is to show the list of mounted filesystems, as one
:would expect with an unmodified mount(8).
:
:Let the flames begin! :-)
:
:- Jordan
When someone has time available, making a separate mount_ufs
and rewriting mount itself to always exec a sub-mount binary
would be even better. But as a poor-man's fix the above
would work fine.
-Matt
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