On Thursday 20 October 2016, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 03:59:15PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On RHEL/CentOs-6 with /etc/mtab file some of our mount tests write > > something to /etc/mtab. AFAIR it should be ignored nowadays by > > default, right? > > > > After our test-suite was running I see these lines left in > > /etc/mtab: > > > > tmpd > > /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/ > >fstab-broken-mnt tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpd > > /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/ > >fstab-broken-mnt tmpfs rw 0 0 none > > /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/util-linux-2.29-rc2/tests/output/mount/ > >fstab-none-mnt tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0 > > Because our mount (from the test) calls /sbin/mount.tmpfs where > is executed standard mount(8) from system. Ah interesting. That's why it works on my local system (also mtab file) where I don't have /sbin/mount.tmpfs. > I'll improve the test to call umount --fake to clean up mtab. Still a bit annoying that these "third party mount binaries" may modify mtab but our umount does not. cu, Rudi -- 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
