On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:22:23PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> I also found nasty bug in lock_mtab(), that's very probably reason
> why we occasionally see corrupted /etc/mtab on machines with many
> concurrent mount processes. This bug is not fixed in any Linux
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this is not true for util-linux mount, unfortunately we know nothing
about a locking code in /sbin/mount.<type> or some others tools.
To avoid confusion -- the bug is stupid hole in the locking code, but
this problem is visible only if some other process unlink foreign mtab
lock file (or someone concurrently runs "rm /etc/mtab~" ).
Karel
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