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From: leach@neptune.uucp (Tom Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: mount(2) and umount(2)
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Date: 24 Feb 89 05:00:44 GMT
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In article <1826@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
>Has anyone managed to make the mount system call work?  All I ever
>get is a "No device" error, using the syntax of the man page - e. g.,


Vic, I sent you an email description of what happened, but then I
thought that this is something the entire net would be interested in.

It appears that the mount (and UNMOUNT) system calls (section 2) use the
same format as a Sun (or any BSD system with NFS).  The current pages
for mount and umount (umount not unmount) are from generic BSD without
NFS support.  It's the NFS stuff that produced the new version.  I've
taken BSD source from a microVax (running NFS) and compiled and executed
it on our cube with no problems.  Therefore, I'm ASSUMING that you can
use the Sun man page for mount and unmount with no major problems.  
(I just gave up and did a system() and executed /etc/mount, so I haven't
tested this extensively)

Tom Leach
leach@oce.orst.edu



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