Re: [PATCH] Get normalized paths for comparing NFS export paths

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On 03/04/2012 06:26 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:58 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> So to restate... this normalizing of the path names (aka striping 
>> multiple slashes or added the leading slash) only need to occur on 
>> (successful) v4 mounts... Although the former would not be an 
>> problem with v2/v3 mounts but its not needed....
> 
> Normalising for v4 only is OK as far as I'm concerned, but as an
> alternative: is there any reason why you can't just grab the path from
> '/proc/mounts'?
> 
Well in some distros /etc/mtab is symbolically linked to /proc/mounts
so this problem does not exist. But from what I've been told not
all distros do that. Plus being backward compatible with older 
release of distro is a good thing... IMHO...

steved.
  
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