> > Makes reliable parsing of > > the damn thing in userland impossible. IOW, fs options should go _last_ > > and they should follow an unconditionally present field. > > But then we lose the ability to later extend the format by adding > fields at the end. Which is one of the things that would be nice to > have, in contrast to /proc/mounts, which we are so afraid to touch now. > > So maybe some alternative, multi line format would be better? > > MountID: 99 > ParentID: 88 > DevID: 0:34 > Type: foofs > Source: /dev/foo > Root: / > MountPoint: /mnt/foo > MountOpts: rw,noatime > Opts: rw,errors=continue > Propagation: shared:42 Which still doesn't fully solve the problem, since ->show_options() can also spew newlines + MountID:. Oh well. Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
