Re: Porting ncpfs utils. to libc6

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de)
27 Nov 1997 00:02:25 +0100

> Both Volcker and I think the problem must be in libc6's implementation
> of the mount() system call but we are not sure. There must be
> something different from libc5's mount() to libc6's mount(). I suspect
> somebody is screwing up the data structure passed to mount().

The mount "function" in libc is nothing but a wrapper. It loads
the parameters in register (assuming ix86) and enters the kernel.
This is what the libc5 version does as well.

You have to find another victim for your accusations. Leave poor
old mount alone. :-)

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