Hi Jonas,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47:08PM +0200, Jonas Kramer wrote:
> Since util-linux-ng 2.14.1, the following problem occurs with mount.
I think the problem is a little older.
> When /etc/mtab does not exist and mount is called with -a, for every
> mount point that is mounted a root-fs record is added to mtab. This is
> because get_mtab_info() sets the flag mtab_does_not_exist to 1 when it
> doesn't find /etc/mtab. However, if it actually finds /etc/mtab, the
> variable is not reset to 0. So on every subsequent call to
> get_mtab_info() (as it is the case when mounting several mount points
> with the -a option), mount will think that /etc/mtab does not exist,
> even if it was created in the meantime by mount itself.
You are right. Fixed. Thanks for your report.
Karel
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