From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 21 20:16:53 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E0437B50B; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA25129; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:45:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:45:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Luoqi Chen 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> References: <200002220403.XAA18436@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200002220403.XAA18436@lor.watermarkgroup.com>; from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk * Luoqi Chen [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