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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

It also lacked a lot of system calls, like ability to loop mount.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Loop mounting is implemented as a separate syscall? But why? I'd expect it to be a parametric thing like mount("loop", ...)
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    Or do you just mean the whole feature was absent? I'm less surprised by that than the fact that loop mounting might be a separate syscall. Considering stuff like the fact that in NTFS, symlinks to files and to directories are two different things, and the program creating a symlink must distinguish which target it needs.

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