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...it 294215ef969ce3ecb91063fbbb8a8c075272cc8d Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> Date: Thu Apr 1 15:19:17 2010 -0400 mount.cifs: introduce privilege separation Much of the mount option parsing and other activities can be done by an unprivileged process. Allocate the parsed_mount_info struct as an anonymous mmap() segment and then fork to do the actual mount option parsing. The child can then drop root privileges before populating the parsed_mount_info struct. The parent waits for the child to exit and then continues the mount process based on the child's exi...

The following patch adds a warning when using NFS mounting syntax (server:/share), instead of the usual UNC syntax (//server/share || \\server\share), that support for NFS style mounts will be removed in version 6.0 of the mount.cifs utility. The reasoning for this is simple. Support for NFS syntax is undocumented and increases maintenance overhead. This came up recently on the cifs-utils list

...92cf85bfb9954b6fd4abb3eebf911a9d3 Author: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com> Date: Fri May 14 19:32:05 2010 -0400 mount.cifs: clean up option parsing Moved option string parsing to function parse_opt_token(char*). Main loop in parse_options(const char*, struct parsed_mount_info*) transplanted to a switch block. The parsing function folds common options to a single macro: 1.) 'unc','target', and 'path' -> 'OPT_UNC' 2.) 'dom*' and 'workg*' -> 'OPT_DOM' 3.) 'nobrl' and 'nolo...