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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Teaching mount(8) to use nmount() 
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On 10 Oct 2005, at 10:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200510101001.38294.dfr@nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson writes:
>
>
>>> We could do that.  I had some thoughts on this:
>>> -> In the future, we want to make it difficult for people to add new
>>>    external mount programs [...]
>>>
>>
>> The mount program isn't always just doing argument parsing.
>>
>
> Agreed, that's why it didn't say "impossible" :-)
>
> I think we are basically in agreement here, the point is to avoid
> pointless mount_foo(8) programs.

So (as I understand it), the suggestion is to get rid of all  
mount_foo programs that just deal with mount parameters. I guess the  
operation of mount then would be to check for mount_foo and exec it  
if it exists, otherwise do nmount stuff to handle the mount itself.  
That would work nicely for mount_webdav (which is *really* cool if  
you have a chance to play with it on a mac).