NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/8469

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!scott
From: [e-mail] (Scott A. Taylor)
Subject: Fixing mount to mount msdos filesystem under 0.96c pl 2
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Summary: mount() isn't as ugly as the author would have us believe!
Keywords: mount, msdos filesystem
Sender: Scott Taylor ([e-mail])
Nntp-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
References: <[e-mail]> <qddysb=@rpi.edu> <yddysh=@rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:20:30 GMT
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For those of you having trouble getting the recently ported mount utility
to mount your MS-DOS filesystems, I played around with it a little (very
little!) this weekend and figured out how to get it to work.  The easy fix
is to remove the "-DUGLY_MOUNT=xxxx" from the CFLAGS line in the makefile,
and to change "return MASK" in line 221 of mount.c to "return mask;".  I
recompiled and  mounted my MS-DOS 3.3 partition; worked like a charm.

I am running 0.96c patch level 2, with the mount sources dated July 14 (I
believe) from tsx-11.  I think that UGLY_MOUNT was introduced to get around
a problem with earlier versions of the kernel (0.96c pl1, maybe?), so this
probably won't work with earlier versions of Linux.  I don't know about
0.97.

If everyone else has already figured this out, just ignore this post!

Scott
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