Hi,

Thank you for the followup. 

As far as I see, this is a mount(8) bug. Canonicalize_mountpoint should be 
called before mount(2), not after.

Regards,
           Szaka


On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Pascal Terjan wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Szabolcs Szakacsits <sz...@ntfs-3g.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> >>
> >> I forwarded the issue to FUSE development. I'll let you know ASAP when
> >> there is a solution or suggestion where/how the "mount on a symlink with
> >> audit turned on for the /etc directory" scenario could be fixed.
> >
> > Could you please point us to the util-linux-ng source and all the patches
> > the relevant Mandriva version applied, or tell us why /etc/mtab update
> > needs to do a symlink(2) on the mount point?
> 
> We use util-linux-ng-2.14.1 + patches on
> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/util-linux-ng/current/SOURCES/
> 
> It does not call symlink but readlink
> 
> The function canonicalize_mountpoint will end up calling a myrealpath
> function dropping extra /, following symlinks, etc...
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=blob_plain;f=mount/realpath.c;hb=stable/v2.14

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