On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:28:54PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi! > > I recently uploaded preliminar versions of libpmount to unstable, and I'm > currently working on it. libpmount is a portability library that pretends > to replace unportable mount() calls with a unified pmount() interface > that has the same API on all platforms. > > I intend to push it as the general option for applications to mount in > Debian. This means when a number of packages are using it, they won't > work on unsupported kernels untill the kernel-specific extensions are > written. > > There are currently extensions for Linux and kFreeBSD. I'm looking > forward to kNetBSD and Hurd porters to write the respective extensions. > The necessary code is quite small and can be ripped from whatever is in > the mount utility you're currently using.
Dropped on my TODO list unless someone else wants to grab it first.
Certainly this should help sanitize a lot of... interesting... issues. I
expect that this will be obvious on looking at it, but does it support
arbitrary filesystem types (such as union mounts on BSD systems that have
the concept)?
--
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,''`.
Debian GNU/kNetBSD(i386) porter : :' :
`. `'
http://nienna.lightbearer.com/ `-
pgpIf4onQIRNz.pgp
Description: PGP signature
