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bug#51425: file-system: validate flags
From: |
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
bug#51425: file-system: validate flags |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 02:48:50 +0200 |
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.
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.
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.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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bug#51425: file-system: validate flags, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/10/29