On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chad Schwartz wrote:
> Because at this point, the simple upgrade of a kernel, quite literally,
> breaks behavior, compared to every single other UNIX out there. (And some
> programs my very well DEPEND upon mount returning an error if an FS is
> already mounted.
Can somebody show _one_ _example_ _of_ _that_? I admit that it's possible,
but could somebody actually show such a program?
Yes, flag controlling the check for mountpoint being a root makes more
sense than previous variations, but before actually going ahead and adding
it I'ld like to see a single example of program that rely on the old
behaviour.
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