From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:21:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:21:32 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:37650 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:21:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:31:28 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Horst von Brand Cc: Dominik Kubla , Kasper Dupont , Miles Bader , DervishD , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20030227163128.A7312@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Horst von Brand , Dominik Kubla , Kasper Dupont , Miles Bader , DervishD , Linux-kernel References: <200302271012.02283.dominik@kubla.de> <200302271600.h1RG0Cdh011948@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200302271600.h1RG0Cdh011948@eeyore.valparaiso.cl>; from vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:00:12PM -0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:00:12PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > I fail to see any significant difference to /proc/mounts (possibly expanded). > Sure, /proc is the wrong place for this kind of stuff, but... In this rare case it's not. /proc/mounts in fact is only a link to /proc/self/mounts and that is needed because wecan have per-process private namespace in Linux now. (of course this drives the traditional /etc/mtab completly useless)