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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck files w/relative paths
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:17:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130125151736.GP27413@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301201827.23141.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 06:27:22PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> we could tweak parse_argv() so that it checks for argv[0] == '.' in addition 
> to argv[0] == '/'.  but that wouldn't fix other relative paths like:
> $ fsck images/foo
> $ fsck foo

Hmm... maybe add a hint to the fsck man page is the best solution :-)

> should we treat all non-options as devices ?  would that break anything ?

I don't think it's a good idea.

All unknown stuff is by default interpreted as filesystem specific options
(options for fsck.<type>) and it's pretty common that people don't use
"--" separator between fsck and fsck.<type> options.

 Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-20 23:27 fsck files w/relative paths Mike Frysinger
2013-01-25 15:17 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2013-01-25 17:02   ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-25 17:36     ` Karel Zak
2013-01-25 19:55       ` Mike Frysinger

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