From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 14:18:40 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA24310 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:18:40 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA24302 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:18:37 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA10457; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:16:57 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508232116.OAA10457@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Recent mount patches.. To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508231939.AA05078@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 23, 95 01:39:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1387 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? 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 Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD