Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 28 Feb 2003 10:37:35 +0900 |
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miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > So why not mount rootfs on '//', mount the real rootfilesystem > on //root, then chroot to //root (while keeping it possible to > chdir("//") ).
Because it's _extremely_ common for `//...' to be generated by tools constructing pathnames, when what's really meant is `/...' (which is fine, because normally it makes no difference).
> Apollo/DomainOS had this '//' thing, used for something different > (it was the equivalent of their /net autofs mountpoint) but it > worked quite well and didn't get in the way of normal '/' operation.
Really? I'm skeptical...
-Miles -- I'd rather be consing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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