[hurd] Define _PATH_MOUNTED as "/etc/mtab"

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

I have pushed the patch.

Samuel

Samuel Thibault, le mer. 17 juin 2026 00:43:02 +0200, a ecrit:
> From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
> 
> Change the definition of _PATH_MOUNTED to "/etc/mtab". This is the
> value used on Linux, and BSD also uses /etc/mtab.
> 
> The change is motivated by the fact that on Debian /etc/mtab is a
> symbolic link to /proc/mounts. This patch adjusts the macro for
> non-linux systems such as Hurd. Changing this using
> sysdeps/mach/hurd/paths.h causes build problems because
> /usr/include/hurd/paths.h is shadowed by this file. This change is
> proposed in the hope that aligning the non-linux targets with the
> glibc for Linux is perceived as a good thing while fixing this problem
> on Debian/Hurd along the way.
> ---
>  sysdeps/generic/paths.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/paths.h b/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
> index 893b4c2286..6b8f440428 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
> +++ b/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
>  #define	_PATH_MAN	"/usr/share/man"
>  #define	_PATH_MEM	"/dev/mem"
>  #define	_PATH_MNTTAB	"/etc/fstab"
> -#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/var/run/mtab"
> +#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/etc/mtab"
>  #define	_PATH_NOLOGIN	"/etc/nologin"
>  #define	_PATH_PRESERVE	"/var/lib"
>  #define	_PATH_RWHODIR	"/var/spool/rwho"
> -- 
> 2.53.0