From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500 Message-ID: <478EC131.8030103@zytor.com> References: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46891 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbYAQDEJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:04:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > > Seems like a plain bad idea to me. There will be any number of home-made > /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do. > There is a lot of precedent for adding fields at the end. Since the last fields in current /proc/*/mounts are dummy fields anyway, it doesn't matter if the homegrown parsers concatenate the additional information to those. -hpa