From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 21 07:21:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04004 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03999 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 07:21:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA35692; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:21:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Dmitrij Tejblum Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Bruce Evans , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I almost hate to suggest this... References: <199812192154.AAA00405@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Dec 1998 16:21:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dmitrij Tejblum's message of "Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:54:50 +0300" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dmitrij Tejblum writes: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In difference from Bruce I think that mount_XXX is the primary interface, > > (and as such agree with jordan that mount_ufs should be there). Mount > > is just a backwards compatibility gadget now. > Most mount_XXX programs are somewhat broken if used as user interface. > Mount(8) is the only way to mount filesystems from /etc/fstab, anyhow. > I think, primary user interface is mount(8) combined with $EDITOR /etc/fstab > (unless we are talking about fixit floppy, of course). Nah, call it a front-end. Like the distinction between pw(8) and the abominable (unless it's been rewritten, ISTR it was a Tcl script but it seems to be Perl now) adduser(8) script. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message