Re: [PATCH] utils/mount: canonicalize mountpoints

[Gabriele Giacone]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Justus Winter
<4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Quoting Gabriele Giacone (2014-06-15 12:56:13)
>> >> Such hunks are workarounds at the moment because hurd mounts paths by
>> >> keeping superfluous '/' and '.' in pathnames if specified at mount
>> >> time, which need to be specified at umount time as well to umount
>> >> successfully.
>> >
>> > But then that won't fix the case when people use settrans by hand, so
>> > perhaps it should be rather done there?
>>
>> Yes, that should fix all cases.
>
> I don't understand.  mount doesn't execute settrans, so why would
> fixing settrans help?

Ok, I just meant fixing pathnames at lower level than mount/umount
utils, I didn't take a look at it yet.

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