Re: fsck files w/relative paths

Karel Zak
2013-01-25T15:17:38Z

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

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