On Sunday 06 February 2011 18:43:48 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:00, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > /etc/mtab is a define, so lets clean up fstab to be one too.
> 
> Those string defines hail from the times when linker was too dumb
> to merge identical strings. Now it does that by its own (not perfectly,
> but good enough). Therefore the reason for them disappeared.
> 
> Maybe we need to remove them altogether.
> 
> In any case, I don't see the reason why we'd want to add more.
> 

Hi,
one reason for define s is that it allows to setup a test environment
where this files are manipulated on a running box without risking
to break the real files. It also allows to test codechanges 
which need root privileges as normal user. 
I'm for defines.

Ciao,
Tito
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