Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
... or, alternatively, add a subfield to the first field (which would
entail escaping whatever separator we choose):
/dev/md6 /export ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/md6:/users/foo /home/foo ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/md6:/users/bar /home/bar ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
Hell, no. The first field is in principle impossible to parse unless
you know the fs type.
How about making a new file with sane format? From the very
Well, what about /sysfs, with its one value per file rule?
There are two reasons not to do it that way:
- atomicity
- backwards compatibility
Of these, I would argue the former is the most important.
Additionally, I don't think sysfs has the ability to present different
structures on a per-process basis; keep in mind this isn't really
/proc/mounts, but really /proc/<pid>/mounts.
-hpa
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