From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [nfs-utils PATCH 1/1] mount: Do not overwrite /etc/mtab if it's symlink
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:27:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191122162708.GB4477@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <938c3cf9-0584-d6b9-b3a1-ec12795761c5@RedHat.com>
Hi Steve,
> On 11/20/19 1:35 PM, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> > Some systems have /etc/mtab symlink to /proc/mounts. In that case
> > mount.nfs complains:
> > Can't set permissions on mtab: Operation not permitted
> > See https://bugs.debian.org/476577
> > This change makes mount.nfs handle symlinked /etc/mtab the way
> > umount.nfs and util- linux handle it.
> > Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> > [ pvorel: took patch from Debian, rebased for 2.4.3-rc1 and created commit
> > message. Patch is also used in Gentoo. ]
> > Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
> Committed... (tag: nfs-utils-2-4-3-rc2)
I'm sorry for introducing a regression.
Send a patch fixing this.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11258155/
> steved.
Kind regards,
Petr
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-22 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-20 18:35 [nfs-utils PATCH 1/1] mount: Do not overwrite /etc/mtab if it's symlink Petr Vorel
2019-11-20 18:51 ` Chuck Lever
2019-11-22 15:49 ` Steve Dickson
2019-11-22 16:27 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
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