You're lucky. I screwed up today with something else, while working on
sysvinit. I only opened stdin for spawned processes, not stdout and stderr.
Result: after a few reboots, several partitions, including the root
partition, toast. Something in the boot processes opens partitions
O_RDWR, that open returns fileno#1 (because stdout is closed), and then
the next printf() f**ks up the partition!
I suspect mount or fsck. It might be mount .. esp. since you also complain
about /etc/mtab, which is maintained by mount.
Andries - are you reading this?
Mike.
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