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Alexander Viro wrote:
>         ...
>         dir = open("/usr/local", O_DIRECTORY);
>         /* error handling */
>         new_mount(dir, MNT_SET, fs_fd); /* closes dir and fs_fd */

Do you really want to start using fds instead of strings for tree
modifying commands (link, unlink, symlink, rename, mount and umount)?
Even if it were possible in the new_mount case it wouldn't have the
atomic lookup+act nature of the old mount.  And then, _I_ would
prefer a uniform interface for tree management commands - strings.

Ciao, ET.