Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:14:47 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: sys_mount cleanup |
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>>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?
> What's the advantage in doing this? > it will drop a whopping 64 instructions out of the kernel. > Leave it in ...
(i) The info part: this magic 0xC0ED flag was added in 0.96c-patch1 (thus in 1992, not 1994).
(ii) The opinion part: removing the test for 0xC0ED will give us 16 more flag bits to be used with the mount system call. No doubt people will find use for those.
> when they drag their ancient MCC setups out
Do you still have a clean MCC distribution?
[I collect this old stuff but not many people seem to have these things any longer. Have a machine that still runs TAMU on a 0.99pl13k kernel. Some months ago when people made some effort to find kernel sources, not a single new kernel source surfaced. In particular, nobody seems to have the 0.99pl13X kernels for X != k.]
Andries - aeb@cwi.nl
12:03pm up 850 days, 23:53, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 1.97, 1.91
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