Re: [PATCH] mount: add a search path for mount helpers

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:42:51PM -0500, Mike Frysinger 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.

 Oh, Mike... this is never ending story :-)
 
 I know only one elegant solution for situations when people have
 different points of view -- let's make it configurable...

> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mount/mount.c |  151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mount/mount.c b/mount/mount.c
> index 0cef101..5be6087 100644
> --- a/mount/mount.c
> +++ b/mount/mount.c
> @@ -631,6 +631,8 @@ do_mount (struct mountargs *args, int *special, int *status) {
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +#define MOUNT_SEARCH_PATH "/sbin:/usr/sbin"

 This should be defined by

    ./configure --with-mount-path=<list>   

 where the default is "/sbin". Is it acceptable compromise?


    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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