[BusyBox] What does it mean when I find bugs in the standard mount?

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Tue Aug 2 19:45:49 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:31, Rob Landley wrote:
> So I'm testing the behavior of my mount against the util-linux mount in 
> ubuntu, and guess what?  The util-linux mount goes _nuts_ in some obvious 
> corner cases.  Try this:
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> That last command umounts "ram" and "move", even though A) it wasn't asked to, 
> B) there's nothing mounted on bind.  It did this because "/etc/mtab" got 
> confused.  This is another reason to just symlink that to /proc/filesystems 

/proc/mounts?

Tito
> (which my rewrite makes work very very well, thanks.  Including with loopback 
> devices).
> 
> Right: _my_ version works properly, which is all I'm focusing on at present...
> 
> Still working on it.  I'll post wherever I get to before stopping for the 
> night (morning, or possibly early afternoon by that point with enough 
> caffeine), even if it's not actually quite done yet...
> 
> Rob
> 
> 



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