Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:25:37 -0800
"Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still
> > > have a giant stack of wildcards in all these random filesystems in the
> > > kernel, are they going to behave sanly when told to mount a partition
> > > not containing thier fstype? or will they fuckup and kill the kernel?
> >
> > If that happens, then it's Al Viro's problem,
>
> i don't care whose problem it is, when the problem breaks
> boot-floppies assigning blame is not something im concerned with,
> fixing the problem is.
>
Problems should be reported upstream where apropriate, not to assign blame,
but so the upstream author knows about it and can fix it for all users of that
piece of software
Glenn
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