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From: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] umount loopback filessystems on autofs stop
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:03:19 +0100
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To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
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Mike Waychison wrote:
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> Joseph V Moss wrote:
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>>Using /proc/mounts could be an issue for anyone trying to use this
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> with a kernel
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>>that truncates /proc/mounts.
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> Which kernel truncates /proc/mounts?
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> Any recent kernel uses the seq_file interface which guarantees that
> nothing gets truncated.  I have a system up and running that works fine
> with about 2500 mounts.


seq_file support for /proc/mounts was introduced with 2.4.19

James Pearson