On Friday 15 January 2010 01:30:27 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:42, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Some mount helpers may live in /usr/sbin, so rewrite the helper function
> > check_special_mountprog() to work off a list of paths. Now the default
> > search path is /sbin and /usr/sbin, and it should be easy to extend to
> > other locations as well.
>
> Isn't this the same issue as discussed here? Where we decided not to
> support filesystem related stuff in /usr?
>
> "This is also my point of view. It's probably better to follow one
> simple rule ({mount,mkfs,fsck}.<type> in /sbin) than discuss which
> filesystem is important for the base system."
multiple issues:
- i dont interpret that the same way you do
- even interpreting it the way you do, i dont see it as a ban
- fsck/mkfs support $PATH search because they arent setuid
- fsck/mkfs hardcode a bunch of additional search paths
- mount is the only one that ignores PATH completely and only hardcodes
/sbin, presumably due to security issues
plus, i see no downside at all for people who ignore / and /usr split setups.
-mike
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