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From: Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>
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Cc: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mount API
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Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> > I belive what you see is the backwards compatibility stuff.
> How is that? The vfs_nmount sycall accepts flags as its first parameter
> and then proceeds testing it for flags various MNT_??? bits almost
> exactly as the existing mount sysccall is doing today. What is the point
> in backwards compatibility for these functions anyway? The new mount was
> supposed to become a new syscall, if I am not mistaken.

I didn't feel like it was worth getting rid of this flags parameter,
mainly for things like MNT_RDONLY or MNT_NOEXEC which apply to all
filesystems.  Converting all these flags to mount options will be a
pain, and an unnecessary one, IMO.  However, it's true that there
are some MNT_* flags that don't belong here at all (like the MNT_EX*
stuff) and those will be converted to mount options once we came to an
agreement concerning the API.

Maxime

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