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Date:      Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:48:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   mount flags
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810181240390.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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I had a hard time trying to decide where to post this.  It's about a
problem that's come up in fixing a broken port (which would mean ports
list, usually) but it's a filesystem hacking problem (which would mean
hackers), excepting that it hasn't anything at all to do with any system
but current.  I'm posting to current, and accepting all boos graciously.

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.

I would be happy to find it, but I suspect that the method for detecting
an NFS mounted FS has changed, so that the app should no longer use
statfs.  That's kind of odd, because this port works on a lot of other
systems which seem to do that fine.

Anyhow, anyone got a recommendation on how to change this thing so that
it works under current?  A real short history on what's changed in
regards to this would be a nice thing to stick in the mail archives.

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