Yo Eric! On Tue, 24 May 2016 17:09:27 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, since you took so long to get to my email. :-)
>
> That's not really funny, and actually pisses me off a little. I "took
> so long to get to your email" because I was working my ass off
> answering 10e6 other emails. If our positions were reversed, would you
> like being snarked at for having already done something I had asked
> for?
Sorry, no offense intended. I did put a smiley on it.
Going forward I'll assume you are saving the best to the last. :-)
> I have way too much to do, and I'm feeling frustrated and stressed out
> because I can't seem to reduce my mailbox backlog no matter how hard I
> try. Have some consideration, please.
OTOH, you can look at as a sign of respect for you and your work.
Good thing there is a long weekend coming up. Maybe button this thing up
before then, start fresh on something else next Tuesday.
> > A common case, but not definitive. Why do you avoid directly
> > telling the user to check df and mount commands?
>
> Because I'd have to go off on a longish detour explaining how to read
> them. I'll do that if anybody points me at a case of silent
> automount, but I don't yet believe that happens. Can you point me at
> that happening?
It happened to me with headless Ubuntu. But that is not a common enough
case to document. For now I'll acept that your script detects the
disk not already mounted.
> > But not a big deal either way. I was in a space contrained
> > environment so it mattered to me.
>
> Hm. That's a good point. Now I have to decide which case I should
> optimize for. Your way is better if the builder is only going to use
> the image once, but mine avoids the unzip overhead entirely on second
> and subsequent uses.
If it is not obviously better, then it can clearly wait. I don't
encourage bike-shedding.
> Maybe I'm too influenced by having to do a lot of ddimage runs to
> the test farm machines. I shall meditate on this.
The Zen of Linux, much to ponder, but also work to be done.
Feel free to skip it.
> > Ah, OK. Maybe we can get it in all gpsd buids soon? :-)
>
> I'm thinking about forcing -n when the command line has one or more
> devices on it.
Works for me.
RGDS
GARY
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