On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:11:21PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >>>>>>>> (also, edquota and repquota seem fs-independent to me...) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> no, they're not: they can directly the quota1 file specified in the >>>>>>> fstab if quotactl fails or the filesystem is not mounted. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's a bug, or more accurately legacy behavior that doesn't need to >>>>>> be supported. >>>>> >>>>> of course it's not nice. But we're talking about existing code calling >>>>> the >>>>> legacy quotactl. If we're going to change it to not check the fstab >>>>> options any more, we may as well change it to use libquota. >>>> >>>> I don't understand - surely edquota and repquota go through your >>>> proplib interface now? >>> >>> We were talking about code like netatalk, which is why I propose >>> a public library for this. >> >> Uh, now I really don't understand. > > what don't you understand ?
You said that edquota and repquota aren't fs-independent; I asked why, given that they should be going through the new quota API, and you suddenly started talking about legacy code and netatalk. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
