linux-kernel - Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts


On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote:
>> 
>> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
>> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
>
> So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)

Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"?
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