Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:45:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mount mount.8 Message-ID: <20000221204548.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200002220403.XAA18436@lor.watermarkgroup.com>; from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0500 References: <200002220403.XAA18436@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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* Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> [000221 20:33] wrote: > > 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 Do you have this archived anywhere, or can you explain what goes wrong? Perhaps I'll have to revive this paragraph but with more accurate description of the dangers. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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