From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 51425@debbugs.gnu.org, jonathan.brielmaier@web.de
Subject: bug#51425: file-system: validate flags
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 22:31:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgqp7wmr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rybib00.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:48:50 +0200")
Hi Tobias,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer 写道:
>> Another thing that is tricky about options is that some of them are
>> only
>> really understood by the 'mount' command line utility, not the
>> 'mount'
>> system call such as used in our init RAM disk (both are thrown
>> together
>> in 'man 8 mount' without an easy way to discern them apart, IIRC).
>
> Aha! Let me introduce you to the only slightly unfortunately named
> ‘man 2 mount’ instead.
Eh, I'm not sure why I hadn't thought about that myself, thank you! It
makes sense after all -- one man page (2) documents the options for the
system call, the other one (8) for the command.
> The way mount(8) lumps both together is… I guess it's user-friendly —
> in a way? — but it leads to this total confusion about what's what.
> Think of flags as literal bit flags, mainly because they are.
Hehe.
> Guix does make the distinction. It's the right call but it leads to a
> brief education moment the first time you encounter both fields.
>
> You're absolutely right that mount options OTOH are arbitrary strings.
> They can't and shouldn't be ‘validated’, but we don't currently
> mandate their stringiness, and should.
Makes sense.
Thank you!
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-31 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-26 22:24 bug#51425: file-system: validate flags Jonathan Brielmaier
2021-10-28 1:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-10-29 19:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-10-30 0:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-10-30 0:48 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-10-31 2:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2021-10-29 19:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-07 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
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