Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:00:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/fdescfs fdesc_vfsops.c src/sys/fs/pseudofs pseudofs.c pseudofs.h src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c Message-ID: <20060516095758.K61709@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20060516055822.GA61809@crodrigues.org> References: <200605151942.k4FJgA05027551@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060516055822.GA61809@crodrigues.org>
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On Tue, 16 May 2006, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:42:10PM +0000, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> > All userland programs in the tree were converted to nmount(2) long ago,
> > but I've found at least one external program which broke due to this
> > (presumably unintentional) mount(2) API change.
>
> Was this external program amd, or something else?
> It would be really nice to convert amd one day...
>
> --
> Craig Rodrigues
> rodrigc@crodrigues.org
>
No, it was a workload characterization utility that mounted procfs
under a temp directory (I discovered the bug when I was trying to
compile it under FreeBSD 7 in order to make a port for of it). I doubt
any amd users would be affected by the bug because most people probably
don't automount procfs or fdescfs.
Kelly
--
Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@{posi.net,FreeBSD.org} - kelly@nttmcl.com
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