From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 20:26:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ED714EBA for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from bunny.monsterbymistake.com([205.207.163.17]) (1956 bytes) by mail.monsterbymistake.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:26:52 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.107 1999-Sep-8 #1 built 1999-Sep-11) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:26:51 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , Colin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access floppy rw to lock system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: |> But I will concede that doing that approximately silly thing |> shouldn't hang the system. I'd probably vote that the driver should |> test for write protect, and the mount(2) call should act as though |> "MT_RDONLY" had been specified. | |Exactly. If it's read-only media, it should fail when being mounted |read-write, or default to ro. | |- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ |---------------------------------------------------------------------- |iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com |Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 |---------------------------------------------------------------------- | This is what I thought would have been 'correct' behaviour and which is why I asked on this list (my feeble mail list searches turned up nothing) FYI: I have been informed that this is no longer an issue in 4.0 due to a rewrite of the driver. Cheers to all who code those things! P. doctor it hurts bad when I do this! D. don't do that then ... next please. thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message