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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: mount option 'nodev'
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Date: 14 Jun 91 08:10:27 GMT
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jay@silence.princeton.nj.us (Jay Plett) writes:

>You (and the rest of us) talk it up at every opportunity.
>With the rapidly increasing prevalence of removable-media
>devices, this option is essential.  We need the option;

[ ... ]

I agree.  I don't understand the value of the "nosuid" option when making
your own /dev/kmem gives you the whole boat anyway.  But then, Sun ships
its operating system with a "+" in /etc/hosts.equiv.  :-(

I'm holding out for 4.4BSD on my SPARC so I can fix things like this
myself.  I won't live long enough to wait for Sun to do it for me.

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Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS  66506-2602