Re: [9fans] P9p's mount(1) on linux

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:39 PM, sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I've just updated to 2.6.25 which means I finally had to fix 9mount
> to work with the >= 2.6.24 mount options. Dealt with backwards
> compatibility by simply adding both the pre AND post 2.6.24 mount
> options (which was suggested by uriel or jyujin on IRC awhile back).
>  So, mounting works, but v9fs's option string appears to be screwed,
> which I was relying on for 9umount (to prevent unmounting things
> mounted by other users). Which is not the best plan, but I'm not sure
> how else to do it...
>

2.6.25 had some issues at release that were fixed in subsequent patches.
I've just got your bugzilla report on the option string reporting (thanks), I'll
try to get to this shortly.

>> Basically it will probably be best to structure it as a
>> "mount helper" and ship it in its own package.
>
>  I'm not sure how mount helpers work... would you have to be root to
> use it that way?
>

It would have to be setuid, at least at the moment.

           -eric