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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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  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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