Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Malcolm Beattie]

Alexander Viro writes:
> thing, we could turn mount(2) into
>       open appropriate fs type
>       convince the sucker that you are allowed, tell which device you want,
> etc.
>       open mountpoint
>       mount(fs_fd, dir_fd)
> Would work like charm, especially since we could fit the network filesystems
> into the same scheme and get rid of the kludges a-la ncpfs mount sequence.
> 
> There's only one sore spot: how'd you mount _that_ fs? ;-)

Start up init with fs_fd on file descriptor 3 and init can put it
where it likes.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
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