Re: [git pull] new mount API

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:10 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hmm. Is it that case in the current patchset that you can do CMD_CREATE and
>> reconfigure the result and some *other* existing mount will change?  If so,
>> that’s rather unfriendly to users.
>
> The default behaviour has to be the same as mount(2).
>

Why?

Obviously mount(2) needs to keep working the way it does now.  Most
likely mount(8) also needs to retain its current behavior.  But I
don't see why the new API needs be bug-compatible with mount(2).

--Andy




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