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Liav A 0bbd9040ef Kernel+Userland: Split bind-mounting and re-mounting from mount syscall
These 2 are an actual separate types of syscalls, so let's stop using
special flags for bind mounting or re-mounting and instead let userspace
calling directly for this kind of actions.
2023-05-17 23:39:15 -06:00

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## Name
remount - remount a filesystem with new mount flags
## Synopsis
```**c++
#include <LibCore/System.h>
ErrorOr<void> remount(StringView target, int flags);
```
## Description
`remount()` mounts a filesystem that is mounted at `target` with new mount flags of `flags`.
The following `flags` are supported:
* `MS_NODEV`: Disallow opening any devices from this file system.
* `MS_NOEXEC`: Disallow executing any executables from this file system.
* `MS_NOSUID`: Ignore set-user-id bits on executables from this file system.
* `MS_RDONLY`: Mount the filesystem read-only.
* `MS_WXALLOWED`: Allow W^X protection circumvention for executables on this file system.
* `MS_AXALLOWED`: Allow anonymous executable mappings for executables on this file system.
* `MS_NOREGULAR`: Disallow opening any regular files from this file system.
These flags can be used as a security measure to limit the possible abuses of the mounted file system.
## Errors
* `EINVAL`: The `flags` value contains deprecated flags such as `MS_REMOUNT` or `MS_BIND`.
* `EPERM`: The current process does not have superuser privileges.
* `ENODEV`: No mount point was found for `target` path target.
All of the usual path resolution errors may also occur.
## See also
* [`mount`(2)](help://man/2/mount)