Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:28:06 +0100 | From | Kasper Dupont <> | Subject | Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts |
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Joseph Wenninger wrote: > > Hi > > Am Don, 2003-02-27 um 07.40 schrieb Kasper Dupont: > > Miles Bader wrote: > > > > > > Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> writes: > > > > I don't think you can put all the information from /etc/mtab > > > > into /proc/mounts without breaking compatibility. > > > > > For KDE 3.1 I've written a mount watcher, which checks the modification > time of the /etc/mtab to recognize mount/unmount activity, which broke > for linux from scratch( for now, they have updated there install > instructions), because they linked to /proc/mounts, which doesn't seem > to support mtime.
It seems the mtime of anything under /proc simply gives the current time. Would that be hard to change? And would anything break if /proc/mounts gave the time of the last change? It shouldn't be a major problem to record the time of the last sucessfull mount, remount, or unmount.
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