Bug#151407: hurd: mount can't parse dselect command

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 11:03:32PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > As discussed on help-hurd. Looking at dselect
> > sources, this is the nasty call that makes
> > Hurd's mount fail:
> > 
> > mount -rt fstype
> > 
> > I tried to fix mount.c to parse that weird
> > combination, but couldn't find where is the
> > -t option parsed.
> 
> Did you read my mail which explained how -t is parsed?  The above is
> equivalent to
> 
> settrans ... /hurd/fstypefs -ro
> 
> andthere is absolutely nothing weird about this.

I read your mail. but the problem here is different, the Hurd's
mount doesn't support mixing argument options with non-argument options
in the same dash, like this:

mount -rt fs

which is equivalent to:

mount -r -t fs

> Your report is pretty useless by the way.  Don't refer to mailing lists
> in your report, instead, quote what you need.  Then, you said "fail",
> but didn't say how it failss (eg error message and wha you expected to
> see).

Dselect uses the command i referred to, which causes this error:

rmh@bilbo:~$ mount -rt fs
mount: invalid option -- r
Try `mount --help' or `mount --usage' for more information.

> Look also at SEARCH_FMTS in util/mount.c, please.

ok

> If "iso9660" vds "iso" is the problem, I still think the best solution
> is a symlink or renaming isofs.

well that's a problem too, but it's separate.

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992