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

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 05:48:19 EST

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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> 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.

Enhancing the mess is no good. It's no good joining things together that
the kernel needs to separate again later either. I vote in favor of Al's
approach.

-- Matthias Andree

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