Bug 4033

Summary:	-r option lacks in BB 1.17 losetup, needed by standard losetup
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Trond <capricornyx>
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.17.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Trond 2011-07-31 13:52:59 UTC

I came across this while testing patches of Knoppix 6.4.4 init, which is based entirely on Busybox. I run 1.17, 64-bits from Debian package.

Standard losetup seems to require -r option for read-only mounting, which is necessary for (e.g.) cloop devices. But BB 1.17 does not recognize this option, making scripts incompatible.  It is no big deal, but might create problems some times.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2011-09-12 06:32:12 UTC

Fixed in git:

commit 13e709c53f700a18a660feebdf72c613a233bf48
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 12 02:13:47 2011 +0200

    losetup: implement -r option.


Will go into 1.20.x