On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:59:45PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > with /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts, /etc/init.d/mtab.sh and > the symlink in /etc/rcS.d are kinda obsolete and should be removed. > > Afaics they do nothing but trying to update /etc/mtab entries.
This is correct, and on current Linux and kFreeBSD platforms which both provide /proc/mounts and symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts, this is entirely redundant. It is however required on Hurd. We should probably consider only installing it on Hurd. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
