Bug#642527: libquota-perl: Quota::getqcarg() fails to detect root device if /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/self/mounts
gregor herrmann
gregoa at debian.org
Fri Sep 23 15:01:43 UTC 2011
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:16:00 +0200, Paul Hink wrote:
> If /etc/mtab is not a normal file but a symlink to /proc/self/mounts,
> Quota::getqcarg() fails to detect the correct root device. It takes the
> first entry matching "/" which is "rootfs" instead of the device
> containing the "real" root partition:
This seems to be fixed in 1.6.6:
Changes in 1.6.6 (June 2011)
- Ignore "rootfs" filesystem in Quota::getqcarg() on Linux, which always
is a duplicate. Thanks to "abaturin" for providing this patch.
Cf. http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Quota-1.6.4&to=Quota-1.6.6#Quota.pm
Cheers,
gregor
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