Compatibility options for mount(8)

Kirk McKusick mckusick at mckusick.com
Sat Jul 13 22:25:29 UTC 2013


> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:42:29 +0200
> From: Robert Millan <rmh at freebsd.org>
> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>
> Subject: Re: Compatibility options for mount(8)
> Cc: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
> 
> 2013/7/11 Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>:
> 
> > I am fine with your proposed addition. I would favor changing the
> > manual page from
> >
> > +For compatibility with some other implementations; this flag is
> >
> > to
> >
> > +For compatibility with some Linux implementations; this flag is
> >
> > as it is (primarily) Linux compatibility and also reflects the comment
> > that you have added in the code.
> 
> Well I'm not sure. There's only one implementation I'm aware of that
> accepts -n, the one in the Linux version of mount (i.e. the mount
> program from util-linux package).
> 
> If we want to be more precise we could investigate, but I think it's
> overkill. It doesn't hurt to be vague on this IMHO.
> 
> If you don't mind, I'd leave this with "some other" as initially
> proposed by Jeremy.
> 
> --
> Robert Millan
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OK to leave it.

	Kirk McKusick


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