Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 16 May 2001 10:45:04 +0100
Alexander Viro writes:
> thing, we could turn mount(2) into
> open appropriate fs type
> convince the sucker that you are allowed, tell which device you want,
> etc.
> open mountpoint
> mount(fs_fd, dir_fd)
> Would work like charm, especially since we could fit the network filesystems
> into the same scheme and get rid of the kludges a-la ncpfs mount sequence.
>
> There's only one sore spot: how'd you mount _that_ fs? ;-)
Start up init with fs_fd on file descriptor 3 and init can put it
where it likes.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
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