[PATCH 2/2] mount: -T OTHERTAB support

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 11 19:07:02 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:11:27PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:21:26AM +0100, walter harms wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Am 11.03.2015 06:35, schrieb Isaac Dunham:
>> >> > +0 bytes disabled, +56 enabled when DESKTOP is enabled (glibc/i386):
>> >> > function                                             old     new   delta
>> >> > .rodata                                           144949  144971     +22
>> >> > packed_usage                                       30236   30256     +20
>> >> > mount_main                                          1200    1214     +14
>> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> > (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 56/0)               Total: 56 bytes
>> >> >    text        data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> >> >  757557        2068    9044  768669   bba9d busybox_old
>> >> >  757593        2068    9044  768705   bbac1 busybox_unstripped
>>
>> Applied, thanks!
>
> Ok, I have two questions (one about the chanes to the patch, one general C)
>
> First, why did the documentation for -w get turned off?

Because -w is a default.

When user types "mount --help"?

When he needs to use an option, but forgot which letter it is.

But user would never want to use -w. It's the default.
so the question "hmmm, what option specifies 'read/write' ?"
does not occur in practice.


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