On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 19:03 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>
> 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...
Which is why I'm asking you if you can't copy from /proc/mounts. Distros
which already have a symlink betweek /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts don't
have any of these problems...
--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer
NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com
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