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Date:      Sat, 4 Nov 1995 22:53:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: Hmmmm!  `resvport' keyword not documented *anywhere*?
Message-ID:  <199511042153.WAA21230@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <9511042130.AA07558@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Nov 4, 95 04:30:03 pm

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Garrett A. Wollman writes:
> 
> <<On Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:27:04 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:
> 
> >> > And the mount_nfs man page does not describe how to put FS specific
> >> > mount options into the fstab.  8-(.
> >> 
> >> The same way as you would on the `mount' command line, with the
> >> exception that `ro' or `rw' must come first.
> 
> > You mean as dash options.
> 
> > This begs the question of "why have undocumented word options at all?".
> 
> For backward compatibility.

Then document them as obsolete, or, if that's too unpleasant, call
them "deprecated".  There's a nice Berkeley word for you.

Greg



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