Re: question about findmnt --target

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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:39:45AM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2015, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 03/17/2015 05:34 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > Maybe we need a new option to disable the evaluation of the target
> > > path elements. (--strict-target)
> >
> > Hey, we already have a tool for that: 'mountpoint' ;-)
> >
> > What's wrong with
> >
> >   mountpoint "$DIR_B" >/dev/null \
> >     && findmnt --target "$DIR_B" \
> >     && ...
> 
> Yeah! In context of that tests/ts/mount/move snippet this should be 
> enough:
> 
> [...]
> # move
> $TS_CMD_MOUNT --move $DIR_A $DIR_B
> 
> # check the move
> $TS_CMD_MOUNTPOINT -q $DIR_B || ts_failed "Cannot find binded $DIR_B"
> [...]
> 
> I still wonder why we don't check mount's return value too. Here it 
> should always return 0, right?

 check return code is good idea, but please still check the mountpoint
 too. It's mount(8) test - we need an independent verification.


    Karel

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