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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 10 03:42:58 PDT 2005


In message <0A7E4AF1-C6C1-4D13-A81F-B6C84DB9B5CA at nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson wr
ites:

>So (as I understand it), the suggestion is to get rid of all  
>mount_foo programs that just deal with mount parameters. I guess the  
>operation of mount then would be to check for mount_foo and exec it  
>if it exists, otherwise do nmount stuff to handle the mount itself.  
>That would work nicely for mount_webdav (which is *really* cool if  
>you have a chance to play with it on a mac).

Exactly.

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