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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).


  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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