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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: How to use loopback mount on 4.1.2?
- Message-ID: <13788@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:34:23 GMT
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- >I wonder why sun ship systems without these links installed?
-
- A better question might be "why doesn't Sun ship a system where the
- "mount" command forcibly sets its PATH so that it always looks in
- '/usr/etc'?"
-
- I.e., the problem is that "mount", for any file system type not in its
- built-in set (UFS, NFS, and maybe PCFS), tries to run a program whose
- name is constructed by appending an underscore, and the file system type
- name, to "mount". It uses "execlp" to run the program, which means that
- if the program isn't in any of the directories in the PATH environment
- variable, it won't be found, and "mount" will complain that the file
- system type is unknown.
-
- SVR4's "mount" may do a better job of finding that program - they may
- have made that the way *all* file system types are mounted - and, if so,
- SunOS 5.0 will do a better job.
-