Re: mount-2.8a

[Jauder Ho]

	is this version of mount multithreaded yet? I find myself having
to touch /etc/mtab~ every once in a while when a linux box goes down in a
bad way.

--jauder

On 4 Aug 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
> By author:    [e-mail]
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > OBkernel: /proc/mounts has the same format as /etc/mtab.
> > If nobody objects against the name mangling as now done
> > by mount-2.8a, then the kernel code should be changed in
> > precisely the same way.
> > 
> 
> I suggested a long time ago that /proc/mounts simply be changed to put
> a \0 at the end of the filename.  This is all quite important stuff;
> far too many /proc files have unprotected filenames in them.
> 
> Eventually it would be nice if /etc/mtab could go away, although it
> isn't being abused anywhere near as badly as it used to be.
> 
> 	-hpa
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