[PATCH RFC] Add a macro for null mount options to sbin/mount*

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, -arch@,
>
> In our mount* utilities, the null mount option, which is usually be used
> as a terminator of an option vector, is defined with some hand-rolled
> terms, e.g.: {NULL}, {NULL, 0, 0, 0}, etc.
>
> I think it would be nice to have a new macro to deal with this, say,
> MOPT_NULL, which would be extended to {NULL, 0, 0, 0}, which can act as
> an explicit initialize.  And in my opinion, something like:

This idea is really great, but may I suggest a name like MOPT_END or
MOPT_LIST_END? Because the macro should indicate the end of this vector,
  not by what it'll be replaced.

Regards,

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron
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