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Ingo Molnar wrote:

>IMHO the mount-options API is quite unclean - since when do we guarantee
>-EFAULT semantics?
>  
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I don't know - I found copy_mount_options() with similar code in 1.0.9 :-(

I agree that it's ugly as hell, but it's user space ABI.

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    Manfred