racy updates of /etc/mtab

Sun Sep 17 15:53:34 UTC 2006

On Friday 15 September 2006 17:23, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 2:07 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > That's why we have it as a CONFIG option.
> > 
> > But if we *support it*, why not support it *correctly*?
> 
> I really can't argue with that logic, but please try not to make it noticeably 
> bigger.  The reason it's deprecated is it has unfixable design flaws, so 
> it'll never be perfect...

Please see attached. No, I'm not too fond of it.
(umount is not covered in this patch)
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