From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losetup --all --verbose results in usage
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:22:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313590941.2653.1.camel@offbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4BCC65.2060100@bernhard-voelker.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 14:12 losetup --all --verbose results in usage Bernhard Voelker
2011-08-17 14:22 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2011-08-17 14:55 ` Bernhard Voelker
2011-08-17 14:44 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-17 15:01 ` Bernhard Voelker
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