Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:34:01 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: sys_mount cleanup |
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On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:52:38PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
Any admin who sets up their /etc/fstab to allow this sort of race condition to occur probably deserves to be micromanaged. By the latest intern in HR. In any case, Al & I have just been tossing around a much more exciting idea with which to replace mount() that would also obsolete fmount()..
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