[PATCH][BZ 19108] paths: use /proc/mounts instead of mtab

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Dec 11 12:36:00 GMT 2015


On 11/18/2015 03:30 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> -#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/etc/mtab"
> +#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/proc/mounts"

Why not /proc/self/mounts?  I don't know if there is a difference;
readlink on paths under /proc often does not provide accurate information.

I suspect a better way is for distributions to make /etc/mtab a symbolic
link to whatever location they need.  Fedora uses /proc/self/mounts, for
instance.

Florian



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