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SubjectRe: sys_mount cleanup
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Followup to:  <E10sZE9-0003cY-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 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
>

Incidentally, any hope for fmount()? Having an fmount() system calls
would get rid of some security-hole race conditions in /bin/mount when
doing mounts on behalf of users.

-hpa
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and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions."
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