Re: mount of write protected fd's

1999-03-31 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Boris Staeblow once wrote: mount should detect that a fd is write-protected and mount it ro although no mount -r is given... Isn't it possible to detect the w/p status from the fd-controller? Actually, the existing behavior is rather

mount of write protected fd's

1999-03-30 Thread Boris Staeblow
mount should detect that a fd is write-protected and mount it ro although no mount -r is given... Isn't it possible to detect the w/p status from the fd-controller? Only a suggestion... Boris -- b...@dva.in-berlin.de Boris Staeblow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: mount of write protected fd's

1999-03-30 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Boris Staeblow once wrote: mount should detect that a fd is write-protected and mount it ro although no mount -r is given... Isn't it possible to detect the w/p status from the fd-controller? Actually, the existing behavior is rather horrible. If you forget to specify ro for a read-only