Subject: Re: NODEVMTIME kernel option gone, replaced with mount flag
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 12/01/1998 22:47:33
> I just removed the NODEVMTIME kernel option, and replaced it with a
> mount option (called, amazingly enough, nodevmtime).

This seems like a good time to ask: I have patches to grow struct
statfs's f_flags field from u_short to long, thereby allowing userland
to see any flag in MNT_VISFLAGMASK, even those above the 0xffff point.

The major difficulty is that it means a bit of a flag day (fortunately
not a serious one, not nearly as much so as the 16-partition changes),
and breaks compatability with pre-change binaries.  Anyone have
thoughts on when and how - and even whether, I suppose - such a thing
should go in?  Certainly if you're willing to live with the flag day
and lack of compatability, it's a simple fix.  (I added it primarily so
I could see symperm bits in "mount" output.)  I think there's like only
one place other than <sys/mount.h> that needs tweaking....

					der Mouse

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