On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:06PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 15 January 2010 06:47:24 Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:42:51PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > --- 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?
>
> why dont we unify these random hardcoded paths. mkfs has one, fsck has a
> similar one, and mount has a completely different one. so for the configure
> options, we can do:
> --with-fs-paths-default=paths default search path for fs helpers
> default=/sbin:/sbin/fs.d:/sbin/fs:/etc/fs:/etc
> --with-fs-paths-extra=paths extra search paths for fs helpers
> default=<none>
I'm not sure if good understand. Do you want to use 'extra' path as
a prefix to the standard $PATH (for example in fsck) and the 'default'
path for programs where we ignore system $PATH (e.g. mount)?
What will be the final $PATH in fsck, mfs and mount?
Please, examples ;-)
Karel
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