Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: sys_mount cleanup

# Re: sys_mount cleanup

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:27:36 -0400 (EDT)

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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Linux 1.0.0 had some backward compatibility with a sys_mount() which
> > expected only 3 arguments, not 5. Would anyone care very much if this
> > compatibility were to simply go away without warning in 2.3?
>
> Traditionally we've put in a bitch about something being obsolete for one
> stable version then squashed it the next

Right, but in this case it's a matter of mount(8) and umount(8). And I
really doubt that somebody is running versions of that stuff circa '94
with the 2.3. What about putting a warning in 2.2.10 and dropping the
thing from 2.3 (and thus from 2.4)?

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