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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:16:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent mount patches..
Message-ID:  <199508232116.OAA10457@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <9508231939.AA05078@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 23, 95 01:39:38 pm

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> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 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?

Yes.
> 
> I assume this supports the contention that mount.h changes are not
> necessary to provide the described behaviour?

Yes.

[I am being extreamly breif, too much to do, too little time to do it].

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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