Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: sys_mount cleanup | Date | 11 Jun 1999 22:52:38 GMT |
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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.
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