Re: `mount` command and POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines

Hi Timothy,

I may be missing the point, but why are you asking the Slackware list 
for a problem that seems more to be a fault with the davfs mount helper? 
Slackware is only a distribution of the Linux kernel and associated 
packages. Surely, having the problem resolved at savannah would fix the 
problem for every Linux distro?

Best,

John

On 07/10/2012 12:29, Timothy Madden wrote:
> Pe 04/10/2012 01:35, Bradley D. Thornton a scris:
> [...]
>> On 10/02/2012 11:50 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have a strange problem that I can not mount a DAV folder with the
>>> davfs2 filesystem, because I usually keep POSIXLY_CORRECT environment
>>> variable set. The var allows me to keep an "aliases" file (similar to
>>> ~/.basrc) and change it when needed if I put the file name in the ENV
>>> variable.
>>
>> can't you use a script to accept your arguments and source the mounts
>> through another shell for this?
> [...]
>
> My arguments are those to the `mount` command, and they are right, as 
> `mount` itself never complains about syntax.
>
> The problem is the command line for the `mount.davfs` helper, which is 
> invoked (and composed) by `mount`.
>
> Trying to wrap the real `mount.davfs` command in a shell script was my 
> first idea indeed. As I wrote in the issue report on mount.davfs2 
> (linked in the previous message) I tried that, only to find out 
> `mount` will not invoke a shell script. It looks like it wants an 
> executable as the mount helper command.
>
> I wrote such a simple executable (attached in the same issue report on 
> mount.davfs2 tracker/list,
>  http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=26664) which 
> I am currently using as my workaround, but I still think the 
> system-provided `mount` command is issue at hand here, and it should 
> follow the POSIX guidelines, as there may be many mount helpers out 
> there using glibc getopts.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Timothy Madden
>
>
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