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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:55:21 -0500
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I am extremely dubious about systemd, and would much rather it not be on any system that *I* run (and using UUID's to identify kernel notification is just whacko) , but I have to agree with Kay in that /etc/fstab.d is Just Wrong.   The /etc/fstab file is parsed by many programs, shell scripts, and not just the ones in util-linux.   We should consider it an ABI, and not mess with it.

Pedantically speaking /etc/fstab is not API, getmntent is API.

In practical terms though it would be very 'interesting' to implement
getmentent with an fstab.d, if not down right impossible because the
argument is a FILE *.

So with a good coding hat on - please don't consider fstab API, it's got
a programming interface 8). Otherwise I agree fstab.d is wrong.

Alan