On 06/30/2011 07:10 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:58:04 -0400 Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >> On 06/29/2011 07:09 PM, NeilBrown wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:28:23 -0400 Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 06/28/2011 06:41 AM, Prem Karat wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Currently souce and destination parameters should be passed as first and >>>>> second paramter while using mount.nfs. This patch allows them to be passed >>>>> anywhere while mounting. >>>>> >>>>> Current functionality is >>>>> mount.nfs source destn -o <options> >>>>> This patch will allow to do this >>>>> mount.nfs -o <options> source destn >>>>> or >>>>> mount.nfs -o <options> source -o <options> destn >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Prem Karat <prem.karat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Committed... >>> >>> Uhmm... that's unfortunate because the patch is badly broken. >>> >>> With the patch in place, argv[2] gets destroyed. >>> i.e. mount cannot possibly work correctly now. >>> >>> And that is just the start of the problems. >>> >>> This patch has clearly never been tested. >> Hmm... well this is not true... I have 1.2.4 running >> on a number of machines and without a problem... > > I'm guessing you used --enable-libmount-mount which causes the patched code > to not be compiled. So while you did test nfs-utils, I don't think you > tested the patch :-( Thats exactly what happen... With your latest patch I never even compiled the code... darn! hmm... I wonder if its time to throw the enable-libmount-mount-on-by-default switch... Well Let me figure out what to do... I'll probably just reissue 1.2.4 steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html