D. Allen [CGL]) (10/06/90)
Does your umount do this?
% umount -fv watcgl:/nfs/watpix/tmp
-f not in nfs server hostname format
-f: Unmounted
watcgl: Unmounted
Unmounted watcgl:/nfs/watpix/tmp
The Ultrix 3.1C umount command passes "-f -v" to nfs_umount, but of
course nfs_umount only accepts a single leading dash argument of the
form "-fv", so it dies. (Someone should just change an "if" to a
"while" in the argument parsing loop.) Even when you manage to say:
umount -v watcgl:/nfs/watpix/tmp
which umount passes correctly to nfs_umount, nfs_umount slams down a
'\0' on top of the ":" so your confirmation message comes back with
just the hostname -- the actual unmounted pathname is behind the null.
% nfs_umount -v watcgl:/nfs/watpix/tmp
watcgl: Unmounted
And the crowning touch, of course, is that nfs_umount exits non-zero even
when it succeeds. But, I suppose that's not a fair criticism since
umount ignores the return status of nfs_umount anyway.
Still true in Ultrix 4.0?
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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