From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Chunrong Guo <B40290@freescale.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base-files: remove symbolic link from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:57:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375264657.8017.46.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375258783-9009-1-git-send-email-B40290@freescale.com>
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 16:19 +0800, Chunrong Guo wrote:
> *If /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts,
> mounting fails because addmntent returns an error.
> As a consequence, the Private directory is unusable
> because /proc/self/mounts is read-only feature.
This looks like it will break anything with a READ_ONLY_ROOTFS since now
mtab won't exist and there will be no way for it to get created.
I'm not quite sure I understand what problem you're trying to fix (since
I can't immediately think of any situation where calling addmntent() is
a sensible thing to do) but, whatever the problem is, I don't think that
unilaterally removing /etc/mtab is a good way to go about fixing it.
p.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 8:19 [PATCH] base-files: remove symbolic link from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts Chunrong Guo
2013-07-31 8:46 ` ChenQi
2013-07-31 9:04 ` Stanacar, StefanX
2013-07-31 9:16 ` Guo Chunrong-B40290
2013-07-31 14:26 ` Mark Hatle
2013-07-31 9:57 ` Phil Blundell [this message]
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