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

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Jon Dowland <jmtd at debian.org> writes:

> 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

"skip" could also mean show -- instead of bogus numbers for the obscured
filesystems.

MfG
        Goswin