From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] new mount API
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:43:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWZZfTcRn-0Gy0nbKv8vCUAKn+r032aFd-dSpZRdAU7aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15252.1535130642@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:10 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-24 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 22:31 [git pull] new mount API Al Viro
2018-08-23 23:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 0:08 ` David Howells
2018-08-24 0:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 0:31 ` Al Viro
2018-08-24 2:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 3:13 ` Al Viro
2018-08-24 4:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 6:05 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-24 8:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 8:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 9:29 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 9:45 ` David Howells
2018-08-24 10:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 14:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 14:26 ` Karel Zak
2018-08-24 14:26 ` David Howells
2018-08-24 14:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 14:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 15:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 15:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-24 17:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 17:10 ` David Howells
2018-08-24 17:43 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-08-24 19:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-24 19:51 ` Al Viro
2018-08-29 12:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-08-26 3:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-08-26 20:42 ` David Howells
2018-08-26 20:46 ` David Howells
2018-08-26 21:03 ` [PATCH] mqueue: Fix bug from mount API conversion David Howells
2018-08-26 21:22 ` Al Viro
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