Subject: Re: nullfs mounts
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2003 06:24:43
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:34:09AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:

> See bin/17673 (http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=17673)
> I reported the same for mount_union. The answer was that you must not use the
> mount_* stuff, but use the real mount program, which will do all necessary
> sanity checks.

Aha, indeed mount is the standard interface, although they appear in /sbin
rather than libexec... I am surprised that they cannot perform the same
basic sanity check however. At least it's now confirmed and I'll know how
to avoid it...

Thanks,
Matt