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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:45:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   re: kern/1067: panic: ufs_lock: recursive lock not expected, pid: 27195
Message-ID:  <199802140245.VAA28222@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199802140050.QAA19952@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <199802140050.QAA19952@hub.freebsd.org>

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<<On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:50:03 -0800 (PST), Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no> said:

>  The mount() system call should by default disallow mounts over
>  existing mount points. An explicit mount option (SunOS 5.5.1 uses `-O')
>  should be specified in order to allow mount over an existing mount point.
 
Gack.  I don't see any good reason for such a change (other than the
dubious example of compatibility with Slowaris).  Mount points should
not be treated any differently than any other directories.

-GAWollman

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