mount / unmount and mountcheckdirs()

[Andriy Gapon]

On 15/09/2017 06:14, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> I had to dig back through some *really* old emails to find out what
> triggered the addition of mountcheckdirs(). The problem that it was
> specifically solving was that as part of the startup script a minimal
> root directory was replaced by the real root directory. The shell
> running the startup script needed to be moved to the new mounted-on
> root so that the rest of the script would not fail.
> 
> That disaster of a hack has been replaced with the much more functional
> code that deals with setting up the root and the devfs filesystem on
> /dev. So the need for which it was designed no longer exists. But I
> still believe that it is the correct thing to do. For example, if you
> are using automount code and chdir into your home directory triggering
> an auto-mount, you should just be in your home directory after the
> mount rather than having to do cd ../$USER to get there.

Kirk,
thank you very much both for the historical reference and for the auto-mount
example.


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Andriy Gapon