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Re: kern/48808: Enhance mount_cd9660 by option -s like in other BSDs



On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 08:35:00AM +0000, scdbackup%gmx.net@localhost wrote:
> If -s is enabled and gets used with a non-zero value, then
> mount_cd9660 will check after successful mounting, whether the kernel
> seems to have expected the old struct iso_args and thus must have
> ignored ISOFSMNT_SSECTOR and iso_args.ssector.
> It will then unmount(2) the freshly but wrongly mounted ISO.

Forward binary compat like this is not needed - a new mount_cd9660 binary
can expect a new kernel always.

Martin


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