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SubjectRe: multimounting cdroms ???
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > This is OK with me, *IF AND ONLY IF* we don't want to add to /etc/mtab,
> > or mess around with the locks mount(8) does... I refuse to code that
>
> I don't see why would we want to.
>
> > into autofs. The C equivalent is quite nice; however, it is rather
> > unfortunate from an autofs standpoint that the "both directories or both
> > non-directories" requirement exists (autofs don't have
> > "non-directories".)
>
> Erm? Do you have to mount non-directories, in the first place?
> Transformations of files to directories may be _very_ confusing for
> userland - that just does not happen.

You don't *have* to, but it is sometimes nice *to be able to*. You can
change files to directories with rename(), unless you're talking about
changing already open file descriptors.

-hpa

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