From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 12 14:56:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B6716A4CE; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:56:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dastardly.newsbastards.org.72.27.172.IN-addr.ARPA.NOSPAM.dyndns.dk (84-72-26-34.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.72.26.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E221843D2D; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:56:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bounce@NOSPAM.dyndns.dk) Received: from Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK (ipv6.NOSPAM.dyndns.dk [IPv6:2002:5448:1a22:0:2c0:49ff:fef2:85dc]) (8.13.2/8.11.6-SPAMMERS-DeLiGHt) with ESMTP id j0CEu4cw088924NO); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:56:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bounce@NOSPAM.dyndns.dk) Received: (from beer@localhost) by Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK (8.13.2/FNORD) id j0CEu3J2088923; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:56:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bounce@NOSPAM.dyndns.dk) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:56:03 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200501121456.j0CEu3J2088923@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.newsbastards.org.72.27.172.IN-addr.A: beer set sender to bounce@NOSPAM.dyndns.dk using -f X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.newsbastards.org.72.27.172.IN-addr.A: Processed from queue /tmp X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.newsbastards.org.72.27.172.IN-addr.A: Processed by beer with -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf-LOCAL From: Barry Bouwsma To: FreeBSD Barnyard and Stable Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Barnyard and Stable References: <1105317580.22779.12.camel@wednesday.pricegrabber.com> <20050110132233.GA5374@lum.celabo.org> <41E2D492.9020302@elischer.org> cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" cc: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: update for 4.11 Security Officer-supported branches X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Barry Bouwsma List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:56:18 -0000 [thread hijacked from freebsd-security@ and landed in stable@ ] On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:16:34 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > While a 4.12 will PROBABLY not happen, I do plan on continued MFCs of > important > changes to RELENG_4 as I do not envision my custommers moving to 5.x > until some > time in 2006 at the earliest. (Including fixes from dragonfly, and > possibly some new drivers > and thing like USB fixes. Thanks, Julian, and I'd like to contemplate getting a few of my MFC hacks that I'm running on 4.x, added to releng, if possible. One of these things I've found very handy is the `mount' option introduced in 5.x that allows one to specify with -F an alternate to /etc/fstab to be used. This I use for conditional mounting of devices which may or may not be present, like external USB (to catch your interest, heh) drives with a complicated partition layout. I test if a known drive is present at a certain device, and if so, `mount -F /etc/fstab-da0' or `-da1' and so on, as part of my boot. In order to adopt this change, I had to add to libc in 4.x as well as butcher the `mount' code. Does such a change stand a chance of being added to 4.x, or are infrastructure changes required this way, like to libc, off-limits outside my own hive of personal hackery? (What's missing, as far as I know, that could be handy, is a comparable option to `umount' when one wants to quickly detach a drive with ten mounted filesystems. I haven't looked at this idea) (freebsd-legacy@ , anyone, for those of us too stubborn to join the modern world, and get confused when the -stable list postings don't make clear what release is being discussed, or want a quiet place to mull over 2.2.x ?) thanks barry bouwsma