Re: [PATCH] Syscalls: reboot: Add options to the reboot syscall toremount filesystems ro

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 15:36 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But you're certainly right that it takes less code to open
> /proc/sysrq-trigger and writing a single byte to it than it does to do
> the straightforward "let's just do the normal mount thing".

/proc/sysrq-trigger is sometimes simply disabled for "security reasons".
I'm not sure about Android, but some systems I know do disable it. So I
think /proc/mounts is a cleaner approach.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÑÑÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ)

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