On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:05:55PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> In fact, the "mount" man page on my Mandrake 7.2 system says:
>
> "It is possible to replace /etc/mtab by a symbolic link to
> /proc/mounts..." and then goes on to describe some of the issues and
> problems with doing so - loopback, and paths with spaces seem to
> be the significant ones.
The spaces part was fixed in patch-2.4.0-test7.
Today there is a different flaw again:
After "mount --bind somedir mountpoint" there is no
indication of somedir in /proc/mounts.
Andries
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