Re: df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems

[Kenneth Stailey]

--- Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:47:06AM -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> 
> > /etc/mtab is bad because read-only filesystem and full filesystem
> > etc cannot generate or update it.  *BSD got rid of it a while ago
> > for getmntinfo(3) API.  Should HURD adopt this API?
> 
> There isn't currently a central store where all of those are kept.

Given.  I'll try to get the source to mount(8) and see what it's doing anyway.

> It
> also not obvious who should update it (Like if users mount filesystems
> that are readable to a group, should it be updated?).

Perhaps list mount directories in an env var:

MOUNTED_PATH=/:/home:/joe/test/mnt

> It's one of the design tradeoff's of the Hurd.


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