Re: [PATCH] mount: properly ignore comments in /etc/filesystems

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On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 12:16:41AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The POSIX spec for sscanf() says that whitespace may be matched against 0
> bytes which means doing sscanf(" %s") against "#foo" will result in a
> match. You can see this behavior by using the verbose options on a garbage
> file:
> 
> ...
> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/null
>        I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems
> Trying #
> mount: mount(2) syscall: source: "/dev/null", target: "/", filesystemtype: "#", mountflags: -1058209792, data: (null)
> Trying #vfat
> mount: mount(2) syscall: source: "/dev/null", target: "/", filesystemtype: "#vfat", mountflags: -1058209792, data: (null)
> ...
> 
> Reported-by: Dave Barton <dave.barton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>

 Applied, thanks.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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