From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 21:12:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DBAE931.7000409@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.21.0210261458460.29768-100000@steklov.math.psu.edu
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
>
>
>>Maybe I do oversee the obious but:
>>
>>can somebody please explain why rootfs is exposed in /proc/mounts (I do
>>mean the "rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0" entry) and if there is a good reason
>>for the exposure?
>
>
> Mostly the fact that it _is_ mounted and special-casing its removal from
> /proc/mounts is more PITA than it's worth.
>
Acceptable but somewhat sad as it confuses e.g. "umount -avt noproc"
which is somewhat standard in shutdown/reboot scripts (using a softlink
from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-26 19:07 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 [this message]
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
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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