From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 12:38:18 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA20042 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:38:18 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20035 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:38:17 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05078; Wed, 23 Aug 95 13:39:39 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508231939.AA05078@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Recent mount patches.. To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 13:39:38 MDT Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508231845.LAA10129@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 23, 95 11:45:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > > You'll need to rebuild all your mount_foo execs due to the change in > > > mount.h. Just FYI. > > > > > > I decided to take the patch because I myself am tired of the system > > > refusing to come up just because I don't have a CD in the drive, yet > > > it's silly to have to type the whole mount command spec in as the > > > only alternative. > > > > What did you change in mount.h? > > > > This is probably suboptimal... > > Bug #1, the include file sys/mount.h is a kernel interface definition file, > the kernel has no need, nor does it care about -noall (currently bug #2 > caused this to be missnamed -noauto). > > Bug #3 (not related to patch) -a is undocumented in the man page, it > is listed in the SYNOPSIS section though, and referenced at least once > in the man page in an example. You didn't identify what you were responding to... this isn't a list of changes -- can I gather that this is a list of what you see as bugs in the changes? I assume this supports the contention that mount.h changes are not necessary to provide the described behaviour? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.