Karel Zak wrote:
libmount supports three scenarios: 1) regular classic /etc/mtab 2) /etc/mtab symlink to /proc/self/mount -- in this case libmount uses /proc/self/mountinfo and /run/mount/utab The current default is to detect symlink and on-the-fly switch between 1) and 2). 3) --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo -- don't care about the symlink and always use /proc/self/mountinfo. This is robust solution required for example by systemd, because unfortunately sometimes people use broken stuff (init scripts, tools, etc.) which removes the symlink. I'd like to make 3) default, the question is what with mtab code: a) #ifdef all mtab code (and add --enable-libmount-support-mtab) b) remove mtab support at all (because it's evil and horrible code) Comments?
We still use SysV init because it suits our needs just fine, and we have no plans to migrate to systemd in the foreseeable future, so we don't have any other compelling reason to use anything other than classic /etc/mtab. As such, we'd certainly appreciate, at the very least, leaving the mtab support in util-linux. -RW -- 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
