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Only default-mount if no -s or -m are given

Unionfs used to always mount itself on a default mountpoint
/mnt/union, because reasons.  Flag -M disabled such pointless
behaviour — at the cost of being pointless itself.

We now default-mount only in case the user didn't ask for
anything else.

--- a/unionfs.c

+++ b/unionfs.c

@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@

 void

 usage(void)

 {

-	fprint(2, "%s [-abiC] [-M | -m mtpt] [-s srv] [-c] path ...\n", argv0);

+	fprint(2, "%s [-abiC] [-m mtpt] [-s srv] [-c] path ...\n", argv0);

 	exits("usage");

 }

@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@

 	c = 0;

 	mflag = MREPL|MCREATE;

-	mtpt = "/mnt/union";

+	mtpt = nil;

 	srvname = nil;

 	stdio = 0;

 	ARGBEGIN{

@@ -734,9 +734,6 @@

 	case 'm':

 		mtpt = EARGF(usage());

 		break;

-	case 'M':

-		mtpt = nil;

-		break;

 	case 's':

 		srvname = EARGF(usage());

 		break;

@@ -748,12 +745,14 @@

 	}ARGEND;

 	if(argc < 1)

 		usage();

+	if((mtpt || srvname) == 0)

+		mtpt = "/mnt/union";

 	for(i = 0; i < argc; i++){

 		if(strncmp(argv[i], "-c", 2) == 0){

 			c++;

 			continue;

 		}

-		if(strcmp(argv[i], mtpt) == 0){

+		if(mtpt && strcmp(argv[i], mtpt) == 0){

 			fprint(2, "%s: mountpoint cycle, skipping branch %s\n", argv0, argv[i]);

 			continue;

 		}

--- a/unionfs.man

+++ b/unionfs.man

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@

 [

 .B -abiC

 ] [

-.B -M

-|

 .B -m

 .I mtpt

 ] [

@@ -56,8 +54,6 @@

 .IR mtpt ;

 .I /mnt/union

 by default.

-.I -M

-disables automatic mounting.

 .TP

 .BI -s \ srvname

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