Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 19:28:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, wollman@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hmmmm! `resvport' keyword not documented *anywhere*? Message-ID: <199511040228.TAA05903@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <24913.815444028@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 3, 95 04:13:48 pm
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> I'm looking through all of our man pages and I'm damned if I can find
> where `resvport' is documented. This is a pretty important option if
> you want to talk to Suns, which many people on the net are saying that
> FreeBSD is incapable of doing (no doubt because they were unable to
> find this option documented anywhere!).
If you document it, it should be in the mount_nfs man page.
I know people don't refer to it directly, but in "man mount":
-o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separat-
ed string of options. The following options are available:
[ ... ]
Any additional options specific to a filesystem type that is not
one of the internally known types (see the -t option) may be
passed as a comma separated list; these options are distinguished
by a leading ``-'' (dash). Options that take a value are speci-
fied using the syntax -option=value. For example, the mount com-
mand:
Which implies -o options should be in the FS specific man pages.
> Yes, the -P flag to mount_nfs is documented, but hardly anyone uses
> the mount_foo commands directly.
And the mount_nfs man page does not describe how to put FS specific
mount options into the fstab. 8-(.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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