[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653073: bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

[Jon Dowland]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:25:05PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> What df should do is automatically skip the entries that are obscured or
> generally inaccessible

I disagree.  It's quite conceivable for a user to accidentally mount two
things over the same VFS path.  When they do, they may rely on df(1)'s
output to help them untangle the mess.  If one of the two mounts is hidden,
they may not be able to fathom what they did: worse, they might tug a disk
with a mounted filesystem by accident, being unable to determine that it
was mounted.

-- 
Jon Dowland