While I agree that the precise behaviour was probably slightly more
intuitive, I don't think coreutils is a place we want to diverge from
upstream. While you might argue that people who relied on the precise
behaviour in local scripts need to fix their scripts on upgrade to
trusty (true), I could readily argue that there's an unknown quantity of
generic Linux software that relies on the upstream behaviour, and would
break on precise but work on trusty.
In reality, both those groups are probably tiny but, again, diverging
from upstream isn't the answer.
What we should do, IMO, is fix this to parse /proc/self/mountinfo
instead (should be trivial, it's just moving the column numbers around a
bit to extract the same info), and propose that patch upstream, with a
rationale that the results match old mtab behaviour more closely and
are, in general more human-readably "pretty".
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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