Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:07:02 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts Message-ID: <46021.985514822@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:01:48 %2B1000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103251959150.35139-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103251959150.35139-100000@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Ev ans writes: >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 :-). I tore down my version of that bikeshed after I saw what kind of bogosities it resulted in. Sometimes ascii is the right API. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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