Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 06.07.14 20:13, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote: > > > > I think the path matching is a little naive; Using a simple string > > > > comparison, "/proc/self/mounts" != "../proc/self/mounts" even though > > > > both paths refer to the same object. > > > > > > No, they

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 06.07.14 13:44, Leonid Isaev (lis...@umail.iu.edu) wrote: > > > I think the path matching is a little naive; Using a simple string > > > comparison, "/proc/self/mounts" != "../proc/self/mounts" even though > > > both paths refer to the same object. > > > > No, they aren't referring to the

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 06.07.14 13:01, Leonid Isaev (lis...@umail.iu.edu) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a read-only / filesystem and /etc/mtab points to > /proc/self/mounts as it should. > So, in systemd-215 tmpfile.d fails to create a symbolic link /etc/mtab > because /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/etc.conf contain

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Leonid Isaev
Hi, On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 08:13:56PM +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:44:05PM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > > > So... the solution would be for distro packages to ship mtab as a symlink to > > "../proc" instead of "/proc"? > No, the latter is fine, or even

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:44:05PM -0400, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 09:15:28PM +0400, Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:13:55, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Shapovalov > > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 09:15:28PM +0400, Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:13:55, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Shapovalov > > wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:01:22, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I have a re

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Ivan Shapovalov
On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:13:55, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:01:22, Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a read-only / filesystem and /etc/mtab points to > >> /proc/self/mounts as it should. > >>

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:01:22, Leonid Isaev wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a read-only / filesystem and /etc/mtab points to >> /proc/self/mounts as it should. >> So, in systemd-215 tmpfile.d fails to create a symbolic link /etc/

Re: [systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Ivan Shapovalov
On Sunday 06 July 2014 at 13:01:22, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Hi, > > I have a read-only / filesystem and /etc/mtab points to > /proc/self/mounts as it should. > So, in systemd-215 tmpfile.d fails to create a symbolic link /etc/mtab > because /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/etc.conf contains is a lin

[systemd-devel] Is there a reason to forcefully create /etc/mtab?

2014-07-06 Thread Leonid Isaev
Hi, I have a read-only / filesystem and /etc/mtab points to /proc/self/mounts as it should. So, in systemd-215 tmpfile.d fails to create a symbolic link /etc/mtab because /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/etc.conf contains is a line "L+ /etc/mtab - - - - ../proc/self/mounts". Is this in