Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:13:14 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Out of mount flags in mount.h Message-ID: <3468139A.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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I was porting some Whistle changes to -current, when I suddenly came up a show-stopper bug. we are out of flag bits. In other words we have run out of bits to describe how a filesystem might be mounted. (e.g. nosuid, noexec, readonly, etc.) does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix this? I notice that mount.c in src/sbin/mount has room for something called the "alt_flags". Is this an attempt to get around this? somehow I want to be able to mount a partition with my SUID-directory changes, but while it fits under 2.2.5 (what we use) I can't migrate it forward to 3.0.. suggestions gratefuly received. rewriting every function and program that uses the mount flags is going to be grim.. maybe just define it to be quad_t? Migration would be a pain.. julian
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