[Glibc-bsd-devel] Some feedback

[Nicolas Souchu]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:44:04PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicolas!
> 
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:09:15PM +0200, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> > 
> > I had to copy /etc/netconfig from my FreeBSD host to /etc because
> > mount of nfs told me udp: Netconfig database not found
> 
> Do you know wether /etc/netconfig is accessed by userland mount or by the
> kernel? In either case I can add /etc/netconfig to our hacked freebsd-utils
> package but there's also a long-term question (see below).

Userland I guess, the kernel never access files AFAIK.

> > And the following patch:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> I'm adding this to our hacked version of sysvinit, thanks.
> 
> > Early init still call mount with -n option and I don't know how to avoid it.
> > 
> > NFS locks seem not ok yet, I have to digg.
> > 
> > reboot is not clean with umounts and option -d.
> 
> I can add fixes for this to our hacked sysvinit if you like, but note that
> our mount/umount are temporary. Current plan is to replace them with portable
> utilities that work on many kernels. I already started work on this, by
> writing libpmount (http://bugs.debian.org/255716).
> 
> Btw, I'm interested on writing a FreeBSD port of libpmount. Would you commit
> it if I send a PR? Or perhaps only the ports developers are in charge?

No, I'm not port commiter.

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Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org
http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD