Re: [RFC][Long][Horror story] Mount flags

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Followup to: <20000731003658.A17759@veritas.com>
By author: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 06:23:05PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Moreover, we can't do anything about the 0xc0ed kludge
>
> Why not? If the first bit of flags is 1, check that the
> first 16 bits are 0xc0ed. If not, decode the following
> 15 bits.
>

It seems to me that it would make more sense to introduce Viro's
proposed mount6() system call if we're going to introduce a new API.
That way, the 0xc0ed trick becomes unnecessary.

        -hpa

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