Subject: Re: Making file handles useful outside of NFS
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/26/1999 15:47:02
On Feb 26, Frank van der Linden wrote
> Looks okay to me. While you're at it, maybe you can split off exporting
> filesystems from the mount() system call, i.e. introduce an exportfs()
> system call (as SunOS had) :-) Overloading the mount call with this is
> kind of ugly.

And maybe this could solve the problem of clients getting "permission denied"
while mountd re-read its exports file ? (see kern/5844 for details).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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