Subject: Re: bin/3998: Trying to mount a filesystem you don't have is cryptic
To: Christian Hattemer <c.hattemer@arcor.de>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/29/2006 19:42:37 
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:07:28PM +0200, Christian Hattemer wrote:
> 
> On a different note, is it normal that some errnos, e.g. EINVAL, can be
> produced at multiple contexts inside sys_mount()? This may make it unclear
> where the problem that led to the abort was exactly.

The msdos code is very bad at that - and can fail in many ways.
Maybe the kernel code could report the actual error to the console.
(at least for some of the 'usual' errors).

	David

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