Bug 165253

Summary: losetup missing option -a
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Richardson <treyvan>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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patch with "-a" option for losetup none

Description Jim Richardson 2005-08-05 21:49:40 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Of course this is the old chicken/egg issue, or who is in charge. Attempting to use a script to mount crypted filesystems from a file as a loop device the script used a -a option to list current loop devices.

I took a peek at the Fedora source and see that the original losetup.c is only referred to in a completely rewritten source file. Well IMO if you are going to plagerize then copy it all.

I don't know who defines the standards or if there are any for such utitlies but one would think they would all pretty much function the same.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
/sbin/losetup -a

  

Actual Results:  usage output

Expected Results:  list of active loop devices

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Comment 1 Karel Zak 2005-08-29 15:39:30 UTC 
Implemented. The patch send to upstream developer.
Comment 2 Karel Zak 2005-09-06 06:46:34 UTC 
Created attachment 118483 [details]
patch with "-a" option for losetup
Comment 3 Karel Zak 2005-10-05 13:23:40 UTC 
No feedback from upstream yet. But I think we can add this nice feature to FC5.
Comment 4 Karel Zak 2005-10-17 15:49:27 UTC 
Added to FC5.