Hello Maxin (Ted, your input would be welcome below.) On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Maxin John <maxin.john@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > The MS_VERBOSE in mountflags option of mount system call was replaced > by MS_SILENT in Kernel version 2.6.17 > (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9b04c997b1120feefa1e6ee8e2902270bc055cd2 > ). > > The LKML thread regarding this commit: > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-03/msg08081.html > > eg: > mount("/dev/sda1", "/mnt/test", "ext3", MS_SILENT, ""); > > The patch also includes some miscellaneous cleanups of the mount.2 man page. > > Kindly let me know if there are any issues with respect to this patch. > > Cheers, > > Maxin B. John > Sony India Software Center > Bangalore, India > > Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@xxxxxxxxxxx> > ------- > > diff -uNr man-pages-3.10/man2/mount.2 man-pages-3.10_mount/man2/mount.2 > --- man-pages-3.10/man2/mount.2 2008-09-23 19:22:25.000000000 +0530 > +++ man-pages-3.10_mount/man2/mount.2 2008-09-30 17:15:29.087697160 +0530 > @@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ > Since Linux 2.6.26, the > .B MS_RDONLY > flag is honored when making a bind mount. > -Since Linux 2.6.2 > .TP > .BR MS_DIRSYNC " (since Linux 2.5.19)" > Make directory changes on this file system synchronous. > @@ -228,6 +227,9 @@ > .BR MS_NODEV , > .BR MS_NOEXEC . > .TP > +.B MS_SILENT " (Linux 2.6.17 onwards)" > +This flag suppresses the display of verbose messages. > +.TP I've rewritten and expanded this somewhat, making it: MS_SILENT (since Linux 2.6.17) Suppress the display of certain (printk()) warning messages in the kernel log. This flag supersedes the misnamed and obsolete MS_VERBOSE flag (avail- able since Linux 2.4.12), which has the same mean- ing. Does that seem okay to the two of you? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
