Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:54:41PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Would that mean then that doing:
> 
>       mount /dev/sda3 /a
>       mount /dev/sda3 /b
> 
> would then fail on the second command because /dev/sda3 is already open
> exclusively?

Good point.  One workaround would be to require an open with O_PATH instead.

                                        - Ted