Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:51:23 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hfstab and extending getfsent(3) Message-ID: <20020422165123.GI307@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <10095.1019493391@winston.freebsd.org> References: <20020422065534.GE326@lenny.anarcat.dyndns.org> <10095.1019493391@winston.freebsd.org>
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On Mon Apr 22, 2002 at 09:36:31AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > It would be interesting to extend getfsent(3) into functions that
> > would write to fstab too. I don't know if it would be appropriate to
> > write those functions in C and backport them to the base, but I think
> > it's worth a shot. sysinstallNG needs to write to /etc/fstab at any rate.
>
> If those FreeBSD losers would just adopt Netinfo for all this kind of
> information, there would already be a central datastore and an API for
> writing to it! :-)
I'm going to hit you. :)
> OK, sorry, too much crack this morning. Seriously, this sort of thing would
> be good - the lack of a programmatic interface for writing fstab entries
> has been commented on and complained about before.
My problem with writing a C interface is that there is no structure to
represent the /etc/fstab in itself, only its lines.
We need a linked list of struct fstab. Otherwise we can make the
putfsent() function take a null-terminated array of fstabs.
At any rate, writing a single fstab doesn't seem safe for me.
A.
--
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