[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#408394: umount.cifs: mtab symlink is replaced with regular file

[Christian Perrier]

user pkg-samba at lists.alioth.debian.org
tags 408394 confirmed
usertags 408394 triaged
forwarded 408394 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4675
thanks

Quoting Radu Cristescu (radu.c at plutohome.com):
> Package: smbfs
> Version: 3.0.23d-4
> Severity: grave
> 
> umount.cifs removes /etc/mtab even if it's a symlink to /proc/mounts
> and writes a regular file instead
> 
> I'm setting the Severity to "grave" because I think losing a symlink
> can be considered "data loss" (the symlink is "data") and using a
> regular file for mtab is not an option in my case.


I have been able to reproduce that bug, which I forwarded upstream.

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