On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > around large amounts of code and extra initscripts to generate > > > mtab for the only system which does not support /proc/mounts > > > (Hurd). A procfs translator (even an incomplete one) would > > > allow all this (barely tested) cruft to be dropped. > > > > We have an incomplete procfs already. It doesn't have /proc/mounts, > > because it's not a trivial thing to implement: since mounts are > > distributed, there is no central place where filesystems are to be > > recorded. There are plans to somehowe build one. In the meanwhile > > things are working already. I don't think spending time on a feature > > just to remove some existing code is the best way to spend our time, > > either. > [...] > > I would say something *like* /proc/mounts is important for a modern > Unix-like system. I'm sure it's not trivial, but it's implementing a > standard format (mtab) and not a moving target of 'be like Linux'.
For mtab, it's probably not even strictly necessary for this to be in /proc/mounts. It could be a translator on /etc/mtab directly? (If a translator can be a single file?) Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120423145529.gs28...@codelibre.net
