For all the 'good rules' of orthonogolity and consistency etc it is a good thing, however I still feel that at the level of the fstab where you are mounting entire file system trees, the simplest naming formats are probably the best. A philosophical point only, but it would keep the fstab format minimalistic and clean.
This point of view could probably be stated in the man page once the '\ ' form is implemented, as a suggested practice. another 0.02c mjt On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:43, Simon Barner wrote: > Hi, > > > This very discussion came up in -questions a few months ago (or maybe it was > > late last year). The conclusion was that unless someone rewrites the > > /etc/fstab parsing routines in libc to support quoted and/or escaped spaces, > > we'll never be able to mount filesystems that have spaces in their names. > > I volunteer for that. My intention is to make getfsent(3) recognize '\ ' > for both the filesystem and the mount point. I think this is more > applicable than using quotes. 'mount' should already handle this > correctly, but I will do thorough testing, of course. > > Cheers, > Simon > > ************************************************************************ > This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. > ************************************************************************ -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
