In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Ev
ans writes:
>On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
>> > Only mount_foofs can reasonably know about the options for foofs.
>> > perhaps mount(8) could fork-exec mount_foofs(8) to print options for
>> > foofs.
>>
>> <bikeshed type=question value="mostly stupid">
>> Or could mount(8) invoke a couple of sysctl's to get a string representation
>> of each mountpoint's mount options?
>> </bikeshed>
>
>My bikeshed believes that string processing doesn't belong in the kernel :-).
I tore down my version of that bikeshed after I saw what kind of
bogosities it resulted in. Sometimes ascii is the right API.
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