From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mount.8: mtab as symlink
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:21:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729102122.GU8533@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406487424.22794.146193409.16E8F3E3@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 08:57:04PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014, at 01:49, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:18:53AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > By the way, Karel, what are these 'helper=' and 'uhelper=' things
> > > that are mentioned in umount.8? Shouldn't these be mentioned in
> > > mount.8 too, and more extensively?
> >
> > Not sure, it's implemented for very special purpose when udisks mount
> > a device that should be umounted again by udisks. I don't think we
> > want to do any advertisement for this functionality.
>
> So... should it be removed from the man page of umount too?
> If so, the third patch in the upcoming series does that.
Please, no. It's described in the section where is description of the
API between umount(8) and external helpers. IMHO 'helper=' and
'uhelper=' makes sense there.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 6:05 mount.8: mtab as symlink Bernhard Voelker
2014-07-21 8:28 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-21 21:16 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 21:32 ` Bernhard Voelker
2014-07-21 22:18 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-21 23:49 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-27 18:57 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-29 10:21 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-07-29 19:41 ` helper= and uhelper= Benno Schulenberg
2014-07-30 7:26 ` Karel Zak
2014-07-31 19:47 ` Benno Schulenberg
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