Re: `losetup --remove` is confusing, and misuse silently fails

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:37:50 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.util-linux
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Op 16-10-2025 om 12:28 schreef Karel Zak:
> https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/3803

Looks good to me.  In particular the documentation patch: it was the
poor description of --remove that made me scrutinize `losetup`.  :)

It would be nice, though, to see a Reported-by tag on the first patch,
the error feedback.


Benno

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