Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:43:39 +0100 | | From | Karel Zak <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts |
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:30:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:12:31 +0100 > Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > > > > In theory it could break userspace, but I think it's very unlikely to > > do so, because stuff is added only at the end of the lines, and > > because most programs probably parse it through the libc interface > > which is not broken by this change. Despite this, it should be tested > > on as many systems as possible. > > Seems like a plain bad idea to me. There will be any number of home-made > /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2 ;-)
Karel
-- Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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