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

From: Doug Rabson (dfr_at_nlsystems.com)
Date: 10/10/05

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    Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:38:58 +0100
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    On 10 Oct 2005, at 10:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

    > In message <200510101001.38294.dfr@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.

    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).

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