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Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Teaching mount(8) to use nmount() 
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In message <20051009064053.GA7261@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek write
s:

>My suggestion (which I discusses with Craig on IRC a bit already) is as
>follows:
>
>- We create one mount(8) program.
>
>- When it is called with '-t <fs>' switch, we look for
>  /lib/mount/mount_<fs>.so and try to dlopen() it.

No way.

Doing that would take much more code than having separate mount
binaries because it would add yet another ABI which has to be
versioned and managed etc etc.

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