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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:03:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
To:        alfred@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re:  cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mount.8
Message-ID:  <200002220403.XAA18436@lor.watermarkgroup.com>

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> alfred      2000/02/21 17:40:46 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/mount           mount.8 
>   Log:
>   Don't scare the users.
>   Kirk argees that the comment about corruption caused by switching the flags
>   on an already mounted manpage are bogus, it doesn't happen.
>   
>   Ok by: mckusick
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.30      +1 -5      src/sbin/mount/mount.8
> 
> 
The danger of corruption when downgrading a rw mount to ro mount is real.
I had a correspondence with kirk regarding one possible of scenario quite
a while ago, but it was too nasty to fix (IIRC), so we dropped the issue.

-lq


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