Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:44:20 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: Colin <cwass99@home.com>, drek@MonsterByMistake.Com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access floppy rw to lock system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000113193231.22457F-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> In-Reply-To: <200001140144.SAA07443@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Well, I was protesting the logic of doing a read/write mount of read-only > media. Mount it R/O and there is no issue. > And, it would have to be "unnoticed" by someone with root > permissions, or it can't be mounted at all (or written to, either). I don't know about you, but I'm not sure how many times I've tried to write to a write-protected disk, or in other words, didn't realize the disk was write protected. It's just not one of the things I normally check when I put a disk in a drive.B > But I will concede that doing that approximately silly thing > shouldn't hang the system. I'd probably vote that the driver should > test for write protect, and the mount(2) call should act as though > "MT_RDONLY" had been specified. Exactly. If it's read-only media, it should fail when being mounted read-write, or default to ro. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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