On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Andries, no offense, but IMO it just replaces a kludge with more elaborate
> one. Sorry. Rules like that _really_ look ugly. Yes, it will work. But try to
> describe the rules in a manpage and see if you will be able to look at it
> without a feeling that it's an overcomplicated kludge.
Description: "flags is a 31-bit flags word; the first bit must be zero".
This is not the time to introduce new mount syscalls.
There is no need. These top 15 bits are not even needed yet.
Andries
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