<<On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:20:53 -0400, "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO"
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> i know that :) i guess my questions were
> 1) why the same piece of code duplicated in all ``mount_xxx'' utilities?
Because the original loadable module system held strongly to the
religion that the kernel should never load anything of its own
accord. The designers of the current loadable module system made
different design choices, but the some traces of its predecessor still
remain.
-GAWollman
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