Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:16:21 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/28] VFS: Remove MNT_EXPIRE support |
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:12:00AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:42:32AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >>Drop support for MNT_EXPIRE (flag to umount(2)). Nobody was using it and it > >>didn't fit into the new expiry framework. > > > > > > umm, this is a user API, you can't simply drop it. > > > > Is anybody using it though?
doesn't matter much. Maybe Sun likes deliberately breaking user ABIs in Solaris, but in Linux we certainly don't.
> Hmm. I'll think about it a while to figure out how to map this > functionality to the new expire semantics. Any suggestions?
Hey, it's you who wants the new semantics. And you didn't even explain them in detail.
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