Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:22:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:22:57 -0500 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:47593 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:22:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5EA035.C25BF0E5@daimi.au.dk> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:33:09 +0100 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miles Bader CC: jw schultz , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts References: <20030219112111.GD130@DervishD> <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk> <3E5DB2CA.32539D41@daimi.au.dk> <3E5DCB89.9086582F@daimi.au.dk> <20030227092121.GG15254@pegasys.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 20 Miles Bader wrote: > > I think making /proc/{mount,mtab,...,whatever} work correctly is > certainly the best thing to do. I think we all agree on that. But then what is the correct way for that to work? And is that possible? Should any of the fields be written by userspace utilities, or is the kernel supposed to know the right value for every field? What should be in the device field in case of loopback and bind mounts? -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid p? usenet. For sending spam use mailto:aaarep@daimi.au.dk for(_=52;_;(_%5)||(_/=5),(_%5)&&(_-=2))putchar(_); - 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/