Re: showtrans --active

[David Walter,,,]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes: 
 
> It appears you have recreated the functioning of the fsysopts program. 
> I suggest you just use that (e.g. "fsysopts /foo"). 
 
I didn't think that fsysopts did the same thing.


W:1:david@naritai:~$ showtrans --active --passive /dev/mouse
/hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2
W:1:david@naritai:~$ showtrans --active --passive /dev/mouse
/hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2
W:1:david@naritai:~$ fsysopts /dev/mouse
fsysopts: /dev/mouse: Operation not supported
W:1:david@naritai:~$ showtrans --active --passive /dev/mouse
/hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2
*/hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2
W:1:david@naritai:~$


Note: don't run the above command in an active X windows session.  The
mouse stops working afterward.

Nope.  fsysopts starts the translator, but doesn't correctly report it
unless it  is a file system?  showtrans  --active tries to _not_ start
the translator.

Is this     a   bug  in    the   translators  failing   to   implement
file_get_translator?   Or was  it the  intention   of fsysopts to only
report device related translators?


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