[818] in Athena Bugs
dangerous attach behaviour (RT 6.0C)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Lillibridge)
Tue Sep 6 01:49:36 1988
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 88 01:48:57 EDT
From: Mark Lillibridge <chariot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: chariot@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Note that if you already have a filesystem attached in a
non-standard place and try and attach a filesystem normally you will
get:
vulcan [50]% attach probe
probe: Already attached...mapping
However, it does *not* actually attach the filesystem in its
normal place:
vulcan [51]% ls /mit/probe
/mit/probe not found
I suspect this is likely to screw up scripts, etc. People
should not assume that because attach returns with no errors that the
filesystem has indeed been attached in its default location. In
particular, shell scripts of the form:
attach foo
/mit/foo/...
will fail if the previous user of the workstation left foo mounted
somewhere else.
- Mark
