From: Jason Price <jprice@cyberbuzz.gatech.edu>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: _mount linux centric?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:52:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020411235240.A7231@oobleck.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204111425360.22302-100000@ns1.sodaware.com>; from schaefer@brasslantern.com on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:33:26PM -0700
>> Mainly because the same file is called /etc/mntab rather than /etc/mtab.
> It's mnttab that's Solaris-centric, not _mount that's linux-centric.
> There are lots of other platforms that use mtab.
My mistake. Those are the two OS's that I'm most familiar with.
>> I'm not good enough to translate the function.
> I don't know what $OSTYPE is set to on Solaris 8 (I only have access to
> an old SunOS 5.5 machine), but I suspect the `freesbsd*' clause in the
> `case "$OSTYPE"' statement near the end of _mount will work just as well
> on Solaris, so just add an appropriate word to that pattern.
$OSTYPE for solaris 8 is "solaris2.8"
(As an aside, I've mentioned this before, but I have access to LOTS of sun
boxes. If given some time, I can probably get to testing things pretty
well.)
I'll try and work on _mount tomorrow.
Jason
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2002-04-11 20:10 Jason Price
2002-04-11 21:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-04-12 3:52 ` Jason Price [this message]
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