Author: bdubbs
Date: Tue May 14 14:25:54 2013
New Revision: 10274
Log:
Change /etc/mtab to be a symbolic link to /proc/self/mounts.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Sun May 12 10:51:44 2013 (r10273)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Tue May 14 14:25:54 2013 (r10274)
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@
</listitem>
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2013-05-14</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Change /etc/mtab to be a symbolic link
+ to /proc/self/mounts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2013-05-12</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml Sun May 12 10:51:44 2013
(r10273)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml Tue May 14 14:25:54 2013
(r10274)
@@ -46,13 +46,14 @@
sed 's/tools/usr/' /tools/lib/libstdc++.la > /usr/lib/libstdc++.la
ln -sv bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>
- <para>A proper Linux system maintains a list of the mounted file systems in
- the file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Normally, this file would be
- created when we mount a new file system. Since we will not be mounting any
- file systems inside our chroot environment, create an empty file for
- utilities that expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>:</para>
+ <para>Historically, Linux maintains a list of the mounted file systems in the
+ file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Modern kernels maintain this list
+ internally and exposes it to the user via the <filename
+ class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem. To satisfy utilities that
+ expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>, create the following
+ symbolic link:</para>
-<screen><userinput>touch /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>ln -sv /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
<para>In order for user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to be
able to login and for the name <quote>root</quote> to be recognized, there
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Sun May 12 10:51:44 2013 (r10273)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Tue May 14 14:25:54 2013 (r10274)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20130512">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "May 12, 2013">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20130514">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "May 14, 2013">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2013"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not
– -->
<!ENTITY milestone "7.4">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or
"x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
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