From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 13:48:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01435 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01355 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11964; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hans Huebner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does this deserve send-pr? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Hans Huebner wrote: > >> # mount_cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /dev > >No, that's pilot error. :) phk would swat that PR in an instant. > > I strongly disagree. If there is a way to sanity check the arguments, > they should be checked. I agree that pilots need to know what they do, > but crashing the machine because of a pilot error should be avoided if > possible. If you do that, then you have to create a magic list somewhere of directories to filter out, and I **KNOW** that will bite someone trying to recover a busted system. Mount is like format -- it assumes you know what you're doing. This is why mounts require superuser privileges :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message