From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 05:45:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 05:45:24 -0400 Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.1]:38636 "EHLO oxmail.ox.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 05:45:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:45:04 +0100 From: Malcolm Beattie To: Alexander Viro Cc: Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Message-ID: <20010516104504.A21358@sable.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <80x0jOtXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:43:37AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Malcolm Beattie Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services