[RFC] Teaching mount(8) to use nmount()

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 10 02:11:25 PDT 2005


In message <200510101001.38294.dfr at nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson writes:

>> We could do that.  I had some thoughts on this:
>> -> In the future, we want to make it difficult for people to add new
>>    external mount programs [...]
>
>The mount program isn't always just doing argument parsing.

Agreed, that's why it didn't say "impossible" :-)

I think we are basically in agreement here, the point is to avoid
pointless mount_foo(8) programs.

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