Hello andrew.

26 Jun 04 13:43, you wrote to me:

 ac>>> As I expected, they inherited the permissions of the mount
 ac>>> point...

 JB>> hmm. it doesn't do that here.  here the dos mount gets the owner
 JB>> and group of whoever runs mount.

 ac> Odd.

yeah. I guess the author of the linux mount didn't think to use the
ownership of the mount-point when mounting volumes with no inherant
file-owner

 ac>>> 7:02 root{at}blizzard [~]#vnconfig /dev/vn0c dosdisk.img
 ac>>> 7:02 root{at}blizzard [~]#mount -t msdos /dev/vn0c /mnt/windows

 JB>> hmm, is that linux?  I've not seen vnconfig before. old version
 JB>> used losetup instead, but now images cand be mounted with an
 JB>> option to mount. (-o loop)

 ac> No, FreeBSD.  (Which can run Linux apps... ;-)

I wonder how it would behave if you used the linux version of /bin/mount :)

Jasen

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