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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:16:30 +1000
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount flags
Message-ID:  <362A307E.8C676700@speednet.com.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810181240390.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> I have a very recently broke thing that was happily using a call to
> statfs, to tell if it was an NFS filesystem or not.  Last time I had
> occasion to take a look at this, there were flags of the sort MOUNT_XXX,
> where the XXX could have been UFS, MFS, NFS, etc.  The application is
> specifically looking for MOUNT_NFS, and it's just not around anymore,
> that I can find.

Yeah, something fishy is going on here with statfs(2).  According to the
man page on a 2.2.7 system, and in <sys/mount.h>, there are definitions
for struct statfs->f_type, but on a 3.0-current, they have strangely
disappeared.  

> Anyhow, anyone got a recommendation on how to change this thing so that
> it works under current?  

You're not trying to compile Midnight Commander are you?  If so, add
"#define NO_INFOMOUNT 1" to config.h as a workaround ....

> A real short history on what's changed in
> regards to this would be a nice thing to stick in the mail archives.

<AOL>Me too!</AOL>


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