Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:38:27 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com> To: balu@dva.in-berlin.de (Boris Staeblow) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount of write protected fd's Message-ID: <199903302138.QAA47485@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <19990330223132.A4808@dva.in-berlin.de> from Boris Staeblow at "Mar 30, 1999 10:31:32 pm"
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Boris Staeblow once wrote: > mount should detect that a fd is write-protected and mount it "ro" > although no "mount -r" is given... Isn't it possible to detect the w/p > status from the fd-controller? Actually, the existing behavior is rather horrible. If you forget to specify ro for a read-only floppy, mount will succeed, but the kernel will keep complaining. It will also NOT let you umount the damn thing (even with -f), until you take the floppy out and write-enable it. Which, sometimes, requires use of duct tape... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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