From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>,
"'Jeremy Jackson'" <jerj@coplanar.net>,
root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: on /etc/mtab vs. /proc/mounts
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:43:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010320004317.A1414@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B65FF72654C9F944A02CF9CC22034CE22E1B42@mail0.myrio.com>
In-Reply-To: <B65FF72654C9F944A02CF9CC22034CE22E1B42@mail0.myrio.com>; from Torrey Hoffman on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:05:55PM -0800
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:05:55PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> In fact, the "mount" man page on my Mandrake 7.2 system says:
>
> "It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to
> /proc/mounts..." and then goes on to describe some of the issues and
> problems with doing so - loopback, and paths with spaces seem to
> be the significant ones.
The spaces part was fixed in patch-2.4.0-test7.
Today there is a different flaw again:
After "mount --bind somedir mountpoint" there is no
indication of somedir in /proc/mounts.
Andries
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-19 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-19 23:05 on /etc/mtab vs. /proc/mounts (Was RE: Linux should better cope w ith power failure) Torrey Hoffman
2001-03-19 23:43 ` Guest section DW [this message]
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