Re: Suid mount helpers fail to anticipate RLIMIT_FSIZE

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel () suse de>]

Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 08:43 AM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> > I'd also
> > like to see distributions migrating away from /etc/mtab in general,
> > since /proc/mounts seems like a much better replacement.
>
> I imagine that mount's -f (fake mount by editing mtab) and -n (mount 
> without editing mtab) options are not going to work if /etc/mtab becomes 
> a symbolic link to /proc/mounts, so that's liable to break a few things. 
>   In the long run it does seem like a good plan, but there might be a 
> few bumps in the road.  I wonder what the rationale was for faking mtab 
> mounts in the first place?

Our system boot scripts used -n as long as / was mounted read only
and -f to update mtab once / was remounted rw.
Since openSUSE 11.4 /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts
which works fine so far AFAIK.

cu
Ludwig

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