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

[Mark Lord]

On 11-03-03 12:45 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> If you can change whatever user-land process that does the reboot
> system call (and clearly you can, since you're adding new commands and
> using those), then why the heck don't you just do the remount-ro from
> that same user land?

Is there a system call for emergency_remount_*() ?
I've been writing to /proc/proc/sysrq-trigger to accomplish this.
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