From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Pai Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:42:21 -0700 Message-ID: <1184168542.2844.13.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> References: <1182442837.3342.13.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467AB5EE.3030909@zytor.com> <1182494654.2812.22.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467B7509.8010106@zytor.com> <1182497690.2812.54.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467B7F6F.4030007@zytor.com> <20070625214640.GC29058@ram.us.ibm.com> <1182808816.2816.7.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <20070630094446.GB22889@infradead.org> <468652E2.4050901@zytor.com> <20070711102449.GA22185@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:38059 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755194AbXGKPpj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:45:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070711102449.GA22185@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:24 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:56:02AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Is that conjecture, or do you have evidence to that effect? Most users > > of this file are using it via the glibc interfaces, and there probably > > aren't all that many users of it in the first place. > > I have written parsers for personal projects that might not have been > happy to deal with additional fields myself for example.. I modified the patch to add fields towards the end of each line. i.e after 'freq, passno' fields. And symlinked /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. mount,df and friends were all perfectly happy. I imagine your script may also be happy with the additional fields **towards the end**. I would like to avoid one more mount interface if we can help it. RP