Re: fmount system call
James Mastros (abszero@epix.net)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:11:24 -0400
At 04:16 PM 7/28/97 +0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:
>Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>[...]
>
>> 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.
>
Is there any way to get a fd to a device (not by the filename that points
to it, but by a major/minor)? I don't see one, and you would need this to
mount root.
>- Werner
>
-=- James Mastros