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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:19:29 -0500
From: Justin A <justin@bouncybouncy.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel.
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Ahh yes I've seen that happen.  It's not too common in standard unix
practices, but comes up a lot when mounting windows shares.  Mounting
"//bobs computer/my folder with stuff in it" does not have good results.
Only way I found to fix that was to umount -a -t smbfs.

-Justin

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:58:24PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <slrn9uj1nf.5lj.spamtrap@dexter.hensema.xs4all.nl>
> By author:    spamtrap@use.reply-to (Erik Hensema)
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > - Multiple values per file when needed
> > 	A file is a two dimensional array: it has lines and every line
> > 	can consist of multiple fields.
> > 	A good example of this is the current /proc/mounts.
> > 	This can be parsed very easily in all languages.
> > 	No need for single-value files, that's oversimplification.
> > 
> 
> Actually, /proc/mounts is currently broken, and is an excellent
> example of why the above statement simply isn't true unless you apply
> another level of indirection: try mounting something on a directory
> the name of which contains whitespace in any form (remember, depending
> on your setup this may be doable by an unprivileged user...)
> 
> 	-hpa
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