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    SubjectRe: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin
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    On Friday 20 April 2007 17:15, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
    > On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
    > > Possibly for fstatfs(): fstatfs() has no way of looking up mount points
    > > per path name in /proc/mounts, and so it resorts to mapping from the
    > > numeric statfs->f_type to the filesystem name (e.g., "ext3"), looks up
    > > the first mount point with that name, and sets the statfs->f_flag flags
    > > based on that entry. This field may change from one arbitrary value to
    > > another.
    >
    > What are you talking about? fstatfs is a syscall, we do nothing but
    > copying values around at userlevel.
    >
    > statvfs on the other hand does use /proc/mounts. And it most
    > certainly does look at the mount point before looking at the
    > filesystem type.

    Yes, that one, sorry. The values it obtains that way are not reliable.

    Thanks,
    Andreas
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