[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Unexpected problem with /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts

Miquel van Smoorenburg miquels at cistron.nl
Sat Jan 21 21:45:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:08 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> When testing the new sysvinit package, I just discovered a problem
> with this change:
> 
>   * Use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab when unmounting  (Closes: #338801)

Ehm, I haven't been following the development due to a chronic lack of
time, but using /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab when umounting
probably breaks loopback mounts.

If it doesn't just ignore me, I just thought I should mention it.

Mike.




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