From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:14:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeekkxxhm6.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414EC43B.8040507@grupopie.com> (Paulo Marques's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:51:23 +0100")
Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> writes:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Andreas :)
>>>
>>> * Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> dixit:
>>>
>>>>>- fix all broken apps that still rely on mtab. like GNU df(1)
>>>>
>>>>df does not rely on /etc/mtab. It relies on getmntent.
>>>
>>> Then my GNU df has any problem :???
>> No, if any then getmntent.
>
> I don't get this. From "man getmntent" it seems that getmntent is just a
> parser for /etc/mtab, and that you must call "setmntent" with the filename
> you want to parse.
>
> So if you do "setmntent("/etc/mtab",...)" you're explicitly saying that
> you want getmntent to use /etc/mtab. This is just a open/read in disguise.
>
> Am I missing something?
No. You are of course right, but the df sources don't reference /etc/mtab
directly, but use _PATH_MOUNTED from <paths.h>.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 22:05 OOM & [OT] util-linux-2.12e Andries.Brouwer
2004-09-20 9:46 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 10:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 10:54 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 11:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 11:51 ` Paulo Marques
2004-09-20 12:11 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 12:14 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-09-20 12:00 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 10:23 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 10:56 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 11:16 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 11:26 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 11:38 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 11:50 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:02 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:07 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:14 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:19 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:34 ` Roman Zippel
2004-09-20 12:38 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 12:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 12:54 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 13:19 ` CaT
2004-09-20 13:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-20 13:15 ` CaT
2004-09-20 10:59 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 13:24 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-20 13:21 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-20 13:32 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-20 14:12 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-21 7:20 ` Helge Hafting
2004-09-21 9:18 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-20 15:24 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-20 11:11 ` David Gómez
2004-09-20 11:06 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 11:38 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-09-20 11:59 ` DervishD
2004-09-20 12:32 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-09-20 14:16 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-21 16:45 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-09-21 21:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-22 17:05 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-09-22 18:39 ` Andries Brouwer
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