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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:03:11 -0600
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        opentrax@email.com
Cc:        ben@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/22043: fstab cache annoyance
Message-ID:  <20001112050311.B7123@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011121058.CAA04066@spammie.svbug.com>; from opentrax@email.com on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:58:33AM -0800
References:  <20001111195431.B13079@platinum.scientia.demon.co.uk> <200011121058.CAA04066@spammie.svbug.com>

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:58:33AM -0800, opentrax@email.com scribbled:
| On 11 Nov, Ben Smithurst wrote:
| > opentrax@email.com wrote:
| >> For utilities that rely on fstab (mount, fsck, ...),
| >> the lookup in fstab(5) fails until the table is
| >> re-read; usually a re-read via reboot.
| > Utilities that read fstab read it themselves, there is no cache in the
| > way you imply.  I'm not sure what the problem is.
| Are you stating that I should report the bugs in
| mount, fsck, etc. - instead?

No.  He is stating that this is standard cross-platform UNIX behavior
and will not change because of this PR. :)

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