Re: `mount` command and POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines

Evan Hisey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <CAEcFzYzBaoNBSb5wn+R=97Sk7aYRUXP_hGZM=rXoQ4=8FT-3RQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
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