On 03/23/2015 01:44 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > > > If you try to mount and NFSv3 filesystem, and statd is not running > and cannot be started (maybe rpcbind isn't running either), the > error message is: > > mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. > mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd. > mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified > > That last line is incorrect and misleading: no incorret mount option was > specified. > > This line comes from mount_error() in error.c. In this case that > function doesn't really need to provide any more information. > > So introduce a concention that EALREADY means an error message has > already been printed, and use it to suppress that message. > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Committed... steved. > > diff --git a/utils/mount/error.c b/utils/mount/error.c > index e06f598e96e3..c9797fc380c4 100644 > --- a/utils/mount/error.c > +++ b/utils/mount/error.c > @@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ void mount_error(const char *spec, const char *mount_point, int error) > nfs_error(_("%s: please report the error to" PACKAGE_BUGREPORT), > progname); > break; > + case EALREADY: > + /* Error message has already been provided */ > + break; > default: > nfs_error(_("%s: %s"), > progname, strerror(error)); > diff --git a/utils/mount/stropts.c b/utils/mount/stropts.c > index 76ecb3292860..df67facdd9d1 100644 > --- a/utils/mount/stropts.c > +++ b/utils/mount/stropts.c > @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static int nfs_verify_lock_option(struct mount_options *options) > "required for remote locking."), progname); > nfs_error(_("%s: Either use '-o nolock' to keep " > "locks local, or start statd."), progname); > + errno = EALREADY; /* Don't print further error message */ > return 0; > } > > -- 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