Your message dated Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:32:14 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line mount: swapon -a -e does not silently skip devices that do not exist. has caused the Debian Bug report #470808, regarding mount: swapon -a -e does not silently skip devices that do not exist. to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: mount Version: 2.13.1-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch In swapon man page, you can read the following statement : "-e When -a is used with swapon, -e makes swapon silently skip devices that do not exist." But in fact, if swapon encounters a non existant device, it outputs a little error message : -8<-- $ sudo bash -c 'echo "/dev/foo none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab' $ sudo swapon -a -e swapon: cannot canonicalize /dev/foo: No such file or directory -8<-- It can be fixed with the following patch : -8<-- ~/src/debian/util-linux-2.13.1$ diff -PruN mount/swapon.c.orig mount/swapon.c --- mount/swapon.c.orig 2008-03-10 22:36:04.000000000 +0100 +++ mount/swapon.c 2008-03-10 22:37:16.000000000 +0100 @@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ char canonical[PATH_MAX + 2]; if (!myrealpath(fname, canonical, PATH_MAX + 1)) { - fprintf(stderr, _("%s: cannot canonicalize %s: %s\n"), - progname, fname, strerror(errno)); + /* stays quiet if told to be so */ + if (!ifexists) { + fprintf(stderr, _("%s: cannot canonicalize %s: %s\n"), + progname, fname, strerror(errno)); + } strncpy(canonical, fname, PATH_MAX + 1); *(canonical + (PATH_MAX + 1)) = '\0'; } -8<-- -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mount depends on: ii libblkid1 1.40.7-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.35-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libuuid1 1.40.7-1 universally unique id library mount recommends no packages. -- Arthur Petitpierre <[email protected]>
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