[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#659473: mtab.sh obsolete with /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:59:45PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> with /etc/mtab being a symlink to /proc/mounts, /etc/init.d/mtab.sh and
> the symlink in /etc/rcS.d are kinda obsolete and should be removed.
> 
> Afaics they do nothing but trying to update /etc/mtab entries.

This is correct, and on current Linux and kFreeBSD platforms which
both provide /proc/mounts and symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts,
this is entirely redundant.  It is however required on Hurd.  We
should probably consider only installing it on Hurd.


Regards,
Roger

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