From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /etc/fstab.d yes or not
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:06:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124010602.GA27017@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120123220720.1b2e9663@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:07:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> So with a good coding hat on - please don't consider fstab API, it's got
> a programming interface 8). Otherwise I agree fstab.d is wrong.
>
It has a programming interface for reading, but other programs can do
modify (and read) the file directly. If some joker decided to change
the formatting of /etc/fstab from tab-delimeted to some crazy XML
encoding, I am certain things would break.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 14:04 /etc/fstab.d yes or not Karel Zak
2012-01-20 14:04 ` Karel Zak
2012-01-20 14:20 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-20 14:56 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 14:56 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 15:57 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 16:08 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 16:08 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-24 0:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-01-24 0:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-01-24 9:47 ` bastien ROUCARIES
2012-01-24 9:47 ` bastien ROUCARIES
2012-01-20 14:43 ` Attila Kinali
2012-01-20 14:59 ` Karel Zak
2012-01-20 14:59 ` Karel Zak
2012-01-20 15:03 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-01-20 15:20 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 15:20 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 15:49 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 15:49 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 16:13 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 16:22 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 16:22 ` Roger Leigh
2012-01-20 17:59 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 17:59 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 12:21 ` Karel Zak
2012-01-23 13:01 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 13:03 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 13:26 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 13:37 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 14:14 ` Masatake YAMATO
2012-01-23 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-23 13:55 ` Theodore Tso
2012-01-23 22:07 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-24 1:06 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-01-20 18:20 ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-20 18:20 ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-20 18:29 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 18:29 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-20 18:47 ` Al Viro
2012-01-20 18:47 ` Al Viro
2012-01-24 11:02 ` /etc/fstab.d yes or not (resolved) Karel Zak
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