Messages in this thread | | | Date | 8 Jan 1998 00:36:32 -0000 | From | david@summerso ... | Subject | Re: no need for a devfs |
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>What would be good also would be a mount/umount suite using /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab... :-) > >Oh well, I'll probably just do that someday...
Yes, please! This is what I had in mind when I originally wrote /proc/mounts two years ago. I'm kind of suprized to only now see this thought, though! My intention was to do away (eventually) with /etc/mtab and the "problem" of trying to write to it when the machine boots the partition in read-only mode. The kernel already knows all that stuff so why not let mount/umount use the /proc/mount instead.
Actually I verified that my modified version of mount/umount would work with just /proc/mount and it worked fine. I tried to locate the authors of mount/umount but was unable to find anybody at the time. Maybe now is the time.
Thanks! - David Summers
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