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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:49:14 +0700 (ALMST)
From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>,
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Subject: Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> <bikeshed type=question value="mostly stupid">
> Or could mount(8) invoke a couple of sysctl's to get a string representation
> of each mountpoint's mount options?
> </bikeshed>

	This is not a bikeshed, but sysctl is the wrong interface to do
this. Use VFSs/VOPs instead. This isn't a big problem with passing string
from kernel to userland.

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Boris Popov
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