Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750743AbVJVRBp (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750748AbVJVRBo (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:01:44 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:13968 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743AbVJVRBk (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:01:40 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Ian Kent Subject: Re: /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:53:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Mike Waychison , Ram , Linux Kernel , leimy2k@gmail.com References: <3e1162e60510021508r6ef8e802p9f01f40fcf62faae@mail.gmail.com> <434F13A7.8090608@google.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510192253.43371.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 25 On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:47, Ian Kent wrote: > > Or, you bite the bullet and fix /proc/mounts and let distributions bind > > mount /proc/mounts over /etc/mtab. > > > > Sun recognized this as a problem a long time ago and /etc/mnttab has > > been magic for quite some time now. > > Don't forget to update mount as well. > > Ian I'm the maintainer of the busybox mount command. We've had /etc/mtab support be optional (you can configure it out) for a while now. There was some fancy footwork trying to get umount to automatically free loop devices and such, but as far as I know that's all resolved in subversion and if we can ever get a 1.1 release out, it should all just work... Rob - 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/