Hi folks, [I'm not subscribed to a list; a CC would be appreciated, thanks.] When /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, the "user" option in /etc/fstab is broken due to not recording the user=foo mount option in /proc/mounts: % grep cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 % mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only % umount /media/cdrom0 umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /media/cdrom [with /etc/mtab as a regular file] % grep cdrom /etc/mtab /proc/mounts /etc/mtab:/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=rleigh 0 0 /proc/mounts:/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,utf8 0 0 As you can see, /proc/mounts does not contain a user=rleigh option, and as a result I'm not permitted to umount /media/cdrom0 when /etc/mtab is a symlink. This information should be recorded in /proc/mounts now that this information can be passed to mount(2). The same goes for any other information currently only saved in /etc/mtab. In Debian, we will shortly be switching to having /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494001 The only other issue I saw was loop devices not being automatically freed (discussed in the link above), but this appears to be working with the current util-linux-ng. Are there any other known bugs in mount exposed when /etc/mtab is a symlink? Regards, Roger Leigh -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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