On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:15:19 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > I reviewed your patch and I think it does not solve completely the > problem.
That's possible :) > When you are in a chroot environment, /proc/mounts show all mounts on > all chroot, so you cannot know for sure if the one you found (and you > may found more than one) is yours. True. > /etc/mtab only contains mounted volumes in current system (or chroot), > so using it does solve the problem. Except that there are situations where it doesn't exist, and IIRC there's no guarantee it's up2date and matching reality. > Back to fixing this bug. Probably, I would suggest, when /etc/mtab is > missing, to assume that $SPOOL/etc is not mounted with bind option. > > What is your opinion about this? I agree that checking for the existence of /etc/mtab before using it is a good idea and would solve _this_ bug. Honestly I don't know if it's correct to base assumptions on it but I leave this to people actually knowing the software :) Thanks for your quick reply! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #378: Operators killed by year 2000 bug bite.
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