Dear Michael,
I do welcome that modification as this provides more clarity.
Thanks and Regards,
Maxin B. John
Sony India Software Center
Bangalore, India
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> --
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