On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 20.10.2010 2:33, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>> What about the attached patch? I'm going to give it a swirl soon. The >>> difference is that it tests whether dev begins with /dev/. >> >> Interesting. I've been thinking about this too, but isn't >> exactly fool-proof. When devfs is the root file system, >> you can use "ufs:da0s1a" to refer to the device special >> file. It seems inconsistent to have "ufs:da0s1" fail when >> ufs:/dev/da0s1" works (a real scenario with USB based mass >> storage devices -- root mount is unheld as soon as umass >> is created, but before daX exists for it). >> >> This patch at least covers the problem cases with a single >> strstr(), and we may get away with the inconsistency given >> above by documenting it properly. >> >> Andrey: any thoughts? > > Currently usage information in parse_dir_ask() says that device should > be specified with "/dev/". But conf0 does not use "/dev/". Also, Marcel, > do you have any plans write some documentation with examples about using > of new features? Yes, this will be documented. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Wed Oct 20 2010 - 14:23:42 UTC
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