Kfir Lavi posted on Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:38:47 +0300 as excerpted: > What I don't understand is, why it needs to get write permissions to > /etc/mtab ?
That is a worrisome indeed, since /etc/mtab is now often a symlink to /proc/self/mounts (or to /proc/mounts which in symlinks to /proc/self/ mounts), which is kernel-enforced read-only. Either way, attempts to write to the symlink target (/proc/self/mounts) *OR* to replace the symlink are worrisome, tho attempts to write the target only potentially disrupt the writer, while successfully replacing the symlink could leave a system and thus its sysadmin in a world of hurt. Yet another lesson on the evils of proprietary/servantware code and the violation of the freedom of actual users to properly see what's going on and to fix it. <shrug> -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
