Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:00:12 -0300

Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de> said:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:12, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> > Dominik Kubla wrote:
> > > I would recommend to replace /etc/mtab with a pseudo-FS like Sun did
> > > for /etc/mnttab:
> ...
> > How does that thing behave? I have considered a /proc/mtab implementation,
> > that might be slightly similar.
>
> Quoting the Solaris 8 man page:

I fail to see any significant difference to /proc/mounts (possibly expanded).
Sure, /proc is the wrong place for this kind of stuff, but...

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