Re: fmount system call

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
29 Jul 1997 00:50:52 GMT

Followup to: <199707281416.QAA09219@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
By author: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Side issue: fmount should accept two file descriptors. One for the
> > directory, and one for the device.
>
> Yes ! And then user-mount and such can be easily handled outside of the
> kernel. In fact, the "normal" mount system call then becomes obsolete
> too.
>

fmount() has been needed for a long time. mount() would be obsolete,
but should be kept on the books for compatibility reasons (although of
course they can both be implemented in terms of the same underlying
code.)

-hpa

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