Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-11-13 Thread John Baldwin
On 13-Nov-99 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:49:31PM -0700, Alec Wolman wrote: >> > Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1 >> > supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it >> > supports, >> > IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it.

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-11-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:49:31PM -0700, Alec Wolman wrote: > > Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1 > > supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it supports, > > IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it. Ultrix was the one that only suported this s

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, > warnx("WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path"); > before line 667 of /usr/src/sbin/mount_nfs.c. But I don't see anywhere > where it differentiates between delimitors and path-components. It is > just a simple strchr() and the first @ or : it finds is assumed the be I'

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-07 Thread Kelly Yancey
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:33:24 -0700 (PDT) > From: Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs) > > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: > > > > If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Alec Wolman
> Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1 > supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it supports, > IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it. You are not correct when you state that this is the only syntax it supports. Digital Unix does support the ho

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) :support the following NFS-URL-syntax: : :mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint : :This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix :... : :I propose to remove the '@' feature because of the a

RE: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread John Baldwin
On 05-Oct-99 Martin Blapp wrote: > Not many people are aware that our userland mount_nfs(8) and > umount(8) > support the following NFS-URL-syntax: > > mount /some/path/to/directory@nfs-server /mntpoint > > This, however, seems to be BSD-specific. Neither Solaris, Linux, Irix > or any other Ope

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: > > If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount > > complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. > > > > A complaint such as: > > > > WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path > > > > would be

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Martin Blapp
> If you want to do this, I suggest a round of releases that have mount > complain about the @ syntax before you kill it. POLA, you know. > > A complaint such as: > > WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path > > would be sufficient. A good idea, but how can one make a differe

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-05 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Martin Blapp wrote: > 1. Parsing a NFS-Path with directory-components which include ':' > or '@' in their path gets difficult. To support it, > mount_nfs(8) and umount(8) have to handle several exceptions: > > - nfs-server:/some@stupid/p@th >