| Summary: | Patch for mount line counting for error report | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | tom.vijlbrief |
| Component: | mount | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-05-31 16:13:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
This is fixed in util-linux-2.9o. |
Mount (2.8a from redhat 5.2) always reports lineno 0 for errors in an fstab: To reproduce: Damage the /etc/fstab for e.g. /mnt/floppy by adding an aditional nonsense field before the options, the try to mount: prompt> mount /mnt/floppy [mntent]: line 0 in /etc/fstab is bad mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab prompt> After applying this one line patch the correct lineno is reported: prompt> mount /mnt/floppy [mntent]: line 7 in /etc/fstab is bad mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab prompt> ====patch follows:=========== *** mntent.c.old Sat May 29 12:51:22 1999 --- mntent.c Sat May 29 12:51:14 1999 *************** *** 148,157 **** --- 148,158 ---- /* read the next non-blank non-comment line */ do { if (fgets (buf, sizeof(buf), mfp->mntent_fp) == NULL) return NULL; + mfp->mntent_lineno++; s = index (buf, '\n'); if (s == NULL) { /* extremely long line - assume file was corrupted */ mfp->mntent_errs = 1;