Re: mount.8: mtab as symlink

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 08:57:04PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014, at 01:49, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:18:53AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > By the way, Karel, what are these 'helper=' and 'uhelper=' things
> > > that are mentioned in umount.8?  Shouldn't these be mentioned in
> > > mount.8 too, and more extensively? 
> > 
> > Not sure, it's implemented for very special purpose when udisks mount
> > a device that should be umounted again by udisks. I don't think we
> > want to do any advertisement for this functionality.
> 
> So... should it be removed from the man page of umount too?
> If so, the third patch in the upcoming series does that.

 Please, no. It's described in the section where is description of the
 API between umount(8) and external helpers. IMHO 'helper=' and
 'uhelper=' makes sense there.

    Karel

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