getfsent and LABEL= or UUID=

[Ulrich Drepper]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> I would much rather see getfsent remain OS-independent as it always has been.
> This recent Linux feature and users of it should bend to the status quo,
> not the other way around.

I agree.  There is already a special library to access the uuid.
There is no problem extending this or creating a more general one.
Besides, it's still possible to write programs which can handle labels
by looking at /etc/fstab and /proc/mounts (and /proc/partitions).

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