Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:59:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:59:14 -0500 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:29848 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:59:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3E649774.9DB3868D@daimi.au.dk> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:09:24 +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: DervishD CC: Miles Bader , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts References: <20030219112111.GD130@DervishD> <3E5C8682.F5929A04@daimi.au.dk> <20030302125315.GH45@DervishD> <3E620E71.B74C2191@daimi.au.dk> <20030304110213.GA42@DervishD> 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: 793 Lines: 24 DervishD wrote: > > Hi Kasper :) > > Kasper Dupont dixit: > > > but after a while I made it a symlink to > > > /var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK. > > Did mount actually update the mtab file? The version of mount on > > my system would not. > > Of course not, it is just a symlink to a proc file But you just said it was a symlink to /var/run/mtab. Did /var/run/mtab get updated? -- 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/