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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:01:48 +1000 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
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Subject: Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> > Only mount_foofs can reasonably know about the options for foofs.
> > perhaps mount(8) could fork-exec mount_foofs(8) to print options for
> > foofs.
> 
> <bikeshed type=question value="mostly stupid">
> Or could mount(8) invoke a couple of sysctl's to get a string representation
> of each mountpoint's mount options?
> </bikeshed>

My bikeshed believes that string processing doesn't belong in the kernel :-).

Bruce


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