On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:24 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:56:02AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Is that conjecture, or do you have evidence to that effect? Most users > > of this file are using it via the glibc interfaces, and there probably > > aren't all that many users of it in the first place. > > I have written parsers for personal projects that might not have been > happy to deal with additional fields myself for example.. I modified the patch to add fields towards the end of each line. i.e after 'freq, passno' fields. And symlinked /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. mount,df and friends were all perfectly happy. I imagine your script may also be happy with the additional fields **towards the end**. I would like to avoid one more mount interface if we can help it. RP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
