Re: [PATCH 2/2] shared mounts: save mount flag space

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Sun Nov 27 2005 - 04:34:47 EST


> > Anyway, I'll let Ram&Al decide on this proposal.
>
> It's
> a) palliative
> b) ugly
>
> Let's face it, mount(2) ABI is getting past its shelf life already.
> We'll need saner replacement (not mixing action with the flags and
> being really typed) anyway,

Could you please ellaborate a bit more?

Are you thinking of a separate syscall for each action?

Miklos
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