Re: [PATCH] Reimplement 10_freebsd.in using 10_linux.in

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:29:08PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> As discussed on IRC this patch has problems on FreeBSD.
> Among them
> 1) stat and readlink are different. Does anyone have an idea how to
> make scripts always use right syntax?

AFAIK a custom autoconf snippet is the only way.  Do you know how to reliably
identify GNU-incompatible readlink?  I'm not sure what "readlink -f /" will do
on FreeBSD.

> -  if path=`readlink -f $path` ; then : ; else
> +  if path=`realpath $path` ; then : ; else

Note that this introduces an external dependency on GNU systems (readlink is
part of coreutils), which better be avoided (specially since the version of
realpath commonly used there has a problematic license).

> 2) "FreeBSD, kFreeBSD ..." isn't what FreeBSD user expects.

Ok.

> 3) Version isn't detected correctly.

Since this part is not in your patch, can you explain the problem?

> 5) device.hints are forgotten

Ok.

> 4) Doesn't use UUID
> 6) Doesn't support ZFS

These two are in the previous version too, so I'd fix/merge them separately
(increasing commit granularity is a good thing).

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