Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:05:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:05:57 -0500 Received: from viefep15-int.chello.at ([213.46.255.19]:56634 "EHLO viefep15-int.chello.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:05:56 -0500 Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts From: Joseph Wenninger To: Kasper Dupont Cc: Miles Bader , DervishD , Linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <3E5DB2CA.32539D41@daimi.au.dk> References: <20030219112111.GD130@DervishD> <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk> <3E5DB2CA.32539D41@daimi.au.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 27 Feb 2003 08:03:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1046329422.1404.10.camel@jowennmobile> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 29 Hi Am Don, 2003-02-27 um 07.40 schrieb Kasper Dupont: > Miles Bader wrote: > > > > Kasper Dupont writes: > > > I don't think you can put all the information from /etc/mtab > > > into /proc/mounts without breaking compatibility. > > For KDE 3.1 I've written a mount watcher, which checks the modification time of the /etc/mtab to recognize mount/unmount activity, which broke for linux from scratch( for now, they have updated there install instructions), because they linked to /proc/mounts, which doesn't seem to support mtime. If the mtab is really completly removed, is there something else I can use to track mount activities from userspace ? I don't want to retrieve the whole mounted list all the time and compare each entry to my internally stored list, just to find out that nothing has changed anyways. Kind regards Joseph Wenninger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/