These tools declare global variables without using the static keyword,
even though their use is limited to a single C-file, or without placing
an extern declaration of them in the proper header file.
For filesystems which use vfs_mount_error() to log an error, this
char buffer will be populated with a string error message.
If nmount() fails, in addition to printing out strerror(errno),
print out the "errmsg" populated by vfs_mount_error().
- Add build_iovec_argf() helper function, for help converting old
mount options which used the mount_argf() function for the mount() syscall.
Discussed with: phk
- Teach the mount program to call the nmount() syscall directly
- Preserve existing method of calling mount() for UFS, until we clean things
up.
- Preserve existing method of forking and calling external mount programs for
mfs, msdosfs, nfs, nfs4, ntfs, nwfs, nullfs, portalfs, reiserfs, smbfs,
udf, umapfs, unionfs
- devfs, linprocfs, procfs, ext2fs call nmount() syscall directly, since
that is all those external mount programs were doing
Reviewed by: phk
Discussed on: arch
