On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Robert Connolly <rob...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On Monday 22 August 2011 18:46:54 Kevin Day wrote: >> I find /etc/mtab to be of poor taste. >> I have a bunch of patches that fix software to use /proc/mounts and >> not /etc/mtab. >> Thus leaving all of the mounted device listing to the kernel (who is >> always correct). >> Then there is no need to worry about clobbering /etc/mtab. (especially >> if your on a read-only or limited-write system). > > Can I see your patches for util-linux-ng? Or all the patches? > > robert >
I am attaching it, hopefully it does not get blocked. The following programs need patches to use /proc/mounts - eject - glib - samba (it tries to do writes to /etc/mtab itself!) - util-linux-ng - xine-lib - uClibc (yep, i still use it for better and worse) - glibc Any application that properly uses the libc's _PATH_MOUNTED should not need to be patched but should obviously need to be installed/reinstalled after applying the glibc/uclibc patch. -- Kevin Day
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