Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:27:36 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: sys_mount cleanup |
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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linux 1.0.0 had some backward compatibility with a sys_mount() which > > expected only 3 arguments, not 5. Would anyone care very much if this > > compatibility were to simply go away without warning in 2.3? > > Traditionally we've put in a bitch about something being obsolete for one > stable version then squashed it the next
Right, but in this case it's a matter of mount(8) and umount(8). And I really doubt that somebody is running versions of that stuff circa '94 with the 2.3. What about putting a warning in 2.2.10 and dropping the thing from 2.3 (and thus from 2.4)?
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