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Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
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Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> A minor detail but ... the "r" operation mentioned above is not actually
> implemented in this system call.

Yeah, that's something I'd like to add.  NFS4 already does this inside its
->mount() method, so my thought is that we might be able to move this from
there to the core.

David