On 06/04/11 12:03, Karel Zak wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:18:02PM +0100, PÃdraig Brady wrote: >> On 05/04/11 13:36, Philipp Thomas wrote: >>> GNU find will not recognize file systems of type autofs on newer Linux >>> kernels as autofs entries are only listed in /proc/mounts and mountlist.c >>> includes glibc mntent.h which takes the _PATH_MOUNTED from paths.h and that >>> is /etc/mtab. >>> >>> After a longer discussion, we (SUSE) chose to patch mountlist.c in findutils >>> to use proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab which fixed ou problem. >>> >>> Would gnulib accept the attached patch to mountlist.c? >> >> Well locally I have symlinked /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts since: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f84e3f52 >> So this would not break anything for me. >> >> Also I understand Fedora 15 will symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mount too. >> >> What about older kernels though? > > If the find(1) command does not depend on mtab specific features > (e.g. user= mount option) then my suggestion is to use /proc/mounts > everywhere independently on the kernel version. > > I guess that mount options are completely irrelevant for find(1), > right? So, /proc/mounts is the right choice. OK from coreutils' point of view, /proc/mounts is better too. So +1 from me. cheers, PÃdraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
