Re: `mount` command and POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines
Evan Hisey <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Timothy Madden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/08/2012 12:17 AM, John Crowhurst wrote: >> >> 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? > > > The `mount.davfs` command only follows POSIX guidelines and is behaving as > expected. > > The problem is the system `mount` command composes a non-POSIX command line > for `mount.davfs`. Timothy- That is still an upstream issue really. Mount is part of the utilily-linux package at http://kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux/. This list can help you develop a work around, but going to the source is best for really solving the problem. Evan