From: Scott A. Taylor (scott@natinst.com)
Date: 08/26/92


From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
Subject: Re: 0.97 patch 2 problems
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:57:02 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.010903.22445@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons) writes:
>
> Hi all;
>
> While were talking about mount, I've been having a problem with it from pl1.
>I can't get it to mount my SCSI partition read only. It accepts the switch, but
>still will let you write to it, and it tries to update accessed inodes, etc.
>
> Mike Irons
>

Are you using an old version of mount? The mount() system call got changed
slightly in 0.96c (pl1 or pl2, I'm not sure which); it expects to see a
"magic number" in the upper two bytes of the options arg. If it doesn't see
this, mount just ignores the options. I doubt that older versions of mount
send the options in the correct format; get the latest mount sources from
tsx-11.mit.edu or any other fine ftp site near you. I am going to post a
fix to mount.c tomorrow that will fix a non-fatal error when mount tries to
parse the options and there aren't any.

>
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> --
> Mike Irons;
> mirons@Dworkin.CCS.Nortehastern.EDU (School)
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