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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:36:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On May 13 12:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:56:58AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>On May 12 23:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>I've called what we do with '/' "immutable".  An immutable mount
>>>>setting needs to be overridden with an "override" option.
>>>>
>>>>I've also marked all of the automatic mounts with a ",auto" to make it
>>>>clear that Cygwin is creating them automatically.  I also added this to
>>>>cygdrive mounts.
>>>
>>>fillout_mntent shouldn't do that.  "auto" and "immutable" are internal
>>>flags, not valid mount options.  If fillout_mntent adds them to
>>>mnt_opts they will be printed by mount(1), which is not a good idea if
>>>you use the `mount -m' command to generate an /etc/fstab output.
>>
>>I thought it was nice to be able to see which files came into being
>>because of a Cygwin decision and which were called for specifically.
>>Linux adds "stuff" in that field which wasn't specified on the command
>>line.
>>
>>But, regarding, "mount -m": It looks like more mount work is required
>>there since we don't want mount -m to generate mount commands that will
>>fail (as in the case of root) or to force a mount of /usr/lib when it
>>isn't necessary.  The ",auto" would be a nice clue about that.  We
>>could just have mount ignore that option like linux's mount does with
>>some options that show up in its mount output.
>
>Ok, sure.  Are you going to do that?

Yes.  Trivial change.

I added "immutable" and "auto" as no-op options for the mount command
too but would you rather not see immutable at all?  Or, mount could
actually implement it and allow it on any old random mount.

cgf


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