Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:08:22 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: multimounting cdroms ??? |
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This is OK with me, *IF AND ONLY IF* we don't want to add to /etc/mtab, > or mess around with the locks mount(8) does... I refuse to code that
I don't see why would we want to.
> into autofs. The C equivalent is quite nice; however, it is rather > unfortunate from an autofs standpoint that the "both directories or both > non-directories" requirement exists (autofs don't have > "non-directories".)
Erm? Do you have to mount non-directories, in the first place? Transformations of files to directories may be _very_ confusing for userland - that just does not happen.
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