Re: proposed libc interface and man page for statmount(2)

Zack Weinberg
2023-11-21T20:43:05Z

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023, at 2:42 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> handle = listmount_open(mnt_id, flags);
> for (;;) {
> child_id = listmount_next(handle);
> if (child_id == 0)
> break;
> /* do something with child_id */
> }
> listmount_close(handle)

Why can't these be plain old open, read, and close? Starting from a pathname in /proc or /sys. Doesn't allow lseek.

zw