Re: Problem with SYS_mount

Antoninus Twink wrote:
> On  5 May 2008 at 21:14, Sam Joseph wrote:
>> I need to mount a loopback file system. I'm using SYS_mount, but it 
>> always fails with ENOTDIR. Am I doing something silly? Here's the 
>> offending line:
>>
>> if(syscall(SYS_mount,
>>    "/home/sam/mnt/", "/home/sam/myfile.img", "-o loop" ))
>>          perror("Mount failure/ ");
> 
> There are so many problems with your code and approach that it's hard to
> know where to begin!
> 
> First of all, the prototype for the system call is
> asmlinkage long sys_mount(char __user *dev_name, char __user* dir_name,
>   char __user *type, unsigned long flags, void __user *data);
> [...]

     Drivel.  Nonsense.  Idiocy.

     To the O.P.: Your question is not about the C language,
but about the system interfaces provided by (it seems) some
flavor of Unix or POSIX.  The details of how to get that
system to do something and about the necessary preconditions
and failure modes are all specific to the system, not to the
language you address it with.  So look for a forum where the
experts on your system hang out, and try asking there.

     Here, as you've seen, you're likely to get drivel,
nonsense, and idiocy.

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