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Subject: Re: losetup --all --verbose results in usage
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
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To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
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On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 16:12 +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> I was surprised that running
> 	mount/losetup --all --verbose
> results in usage().
> 
> As -a is the option to list all used loop devices,
> one might think that -v adds some more info to the output.
> 

The verbose option is quite broken, yes.

> Neither --help nor the man pages nor the info page tells
> that -a doesn't accept other options:
> 
> mount/lomount.c (line 1133):
> 
>          } else if (all) {
>                  if (argc > 2)
>                          usage(stderr);
> 
> Should we work on this?

I'm actually rewriting this tool to make use of our new loop library.
I'll address this issue here as well, thanks for the heads up.

- Davidlohr