[vbox-dev] [PATCH 2nd resend] VBoxServiceAutoMount: Change Linux mount code to use

[Michael Thayer]

04.05.19 16:44, Michael Thayer wrote:
> 03.05.19 23:40, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:
> [...]
>> Finally, does the libc or kernel mount() implementation somehow invoke
>> the /sbin/mount.vboxsf helper tool?  Please point me to the code causing
>> this, because our vboxsf sources does not parse any parameter strings,
>> it is binary struct only.
> 
> The mount(8) manual page reads to me that the mount utility calls the
> mount helper (or skips it if you pass "-i").  Our mount helper calls
> mount(2) to perform the actual mount.  Hans modified the shared folder
> kernel code to do the parsing.  I suspect the version Sérgio is testing
> against has that change as a patch.  Sérgio, could you take a look at
> that, or point us to the sources you tested against?

Attaching Hans's patch to the kernel driver.  This version is from a
while back, don't know if it will still apply cleanly.

> Regards
> Michael
> 
>> Kind regards, bird.
>>
>>
>> On 2019-05-02 6:56 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Please accept this patch we are using on Fedora packages and it is
>>> working with in-kernel and not in-kernel (el7) modules
>>>
>>> I'm OK with MIT license for this patch
>>> Best regards
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