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SubjectRe: BUG: Mount ignores mount options
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:48:53AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > Are there cases I'm missing? It sounds like the API could be improved
> > to fully model the last case, and everything will work nicely.
>
> You know, that's starting to remind of this little gem of Borges:
> http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html
> Especially the delightful (fake) quote contained in there:
> [...] it is written that the animals are divided into:
> (a) belonging to the emperor,
> (b) embalmed,
> (c) tame,
> (d) sucking pigs,
> (e) sirens,
> (f) fabulous,
> (g) stray dogs,
> (h) included in the present classification,
> (i) frenzied,
> (j) innumerable,
> (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
> (l) et cetera,
> (m) having just broken the water pitcher,
> (n) that from a long way off look like flies.


Coincidentally, this was also the model for Linux capabilities.


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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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