From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@w.ods.org
Subject: Re: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:09:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021027150936.A20310@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DBC0007.8020005@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0500
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> symlinks directly to /proc/mounts is fine with me -- just don't expect
> any sympathy when userspace tools don't handle things like $subject. :)
> The answer will be "fix the userspace tools" not "add special case code
> to the kernel" :)
well, better link to /proc/self/mounts directly, that's where /proc/mounts
links to. That's another reason why the /etc/mtab-concept is broken:
you might have very different mounts in different processes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-27 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 18:53 rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-26 18:59 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-26 19:12 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-26 19:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-27 0:22 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-27 10:21 ` Andreas Haumer
2002-10-27 11:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-10-27 23:27 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-10-28 9:05 ` Kasper Dupont
2002-10-27 15:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-27 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-28 0:03 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-10-28 0:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-28 1:17 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
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