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| author | Karel Zak | 2012-08-06 12:45:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2012-08-06 12:49:41 +0200 |
| commit | 5f7c18902fe2cd1e8b7d8d205680546d056000f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 1424d122a05ab42d6642cd56936a17cb615d520a /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | docs: update tests docs (diff) | |
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mount: replace control chars in mountpoint name
For compatibility with coreutils and to avoid complex solutions in
mount output mount replaces control characters with '?'.
Note that the listing mode in mount(8) is in maintenance mode --
findmnt(8) provides more robust and better solutions.
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/mount.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/mount.8 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 6c222d032..fc4622d2b 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ options to avoid ambivalent interpretation of the given argument. For example .B The listing and help. .RS -Three forms of invocation do not actually mount anything: -.TP -.B "mount \-h" -prints a help message -.TP -.B "mount \-V" -prints a version string +The listing mode is maintained for backward compatibility only. + +For more robust and definable output use +.BR findmnt (8), +\fBespecially in your scripts\fP. Note that control characters in the +mountpoint name are replaced with '?'. + .TP .BR "mount " [ -l "] [" "-t \fItype\fP" ] lists all mounted filesystems (of type |