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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:20:37PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> I agree that it would work for most cases [today, in 2.6 Linux] - but I 
> really feel uncomfortable introducing a user space / kernel space 
> dependency on the size of a field where none is needed - I am especially 
> nervous because I can see from the Samba change logs that:

Please listen, I said you should export it in /proc/<pid>/mounts, which is
an ASCII interface and any half-sane parser does not depend on the width
of the field in the kernel.

Can we please get rid of the broken ioctl now so it doesn't become part
of the ABI and you'll add the trivial output to /proc/<pid>/mounts?

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