Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/examples/fstab
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/04/2005 23:42:06
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Klaus Klein wrote:
> I believe this would really make the matter more complicated than
> it needs to be; if the daemon chroot is mounted nodev, then what
> next?

No idea what next.

But I think if someone asks a daemon to run on a filesystem with 
inapprorpiate mountflags, we can try and warn. Other operating systems to 
that, too, see Solaris' /etc/init.d/sendmail for an example.


> Also, a point gone missing here is thatm with the clock accuracy you
> get from the typical COTS machine, you're very likely to end up
> running ntpd, and in that case the suggested mount option will bite
> you.

I don't know what you mean here.

I have the feeling this is evolving into a bikeshed discussion.
``oh my god, he dared documenting an option which may lead people into
   problems, let's quick undo the documentation instead of fixing this
   properly.''


  - Hubert

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