linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree

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Message-ID: <468123D9.6030001@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:34:01 -0400
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
CC:	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree

Karel Zak wrote:
> 
>  (BTW, maybe we can completely remove "freq, passno" from
>  /proc/mounts, especially if we don't have care about compatibility
>  with /etc/{mtab,fstab} format. The freq and passno are always zero in
>  /proc/mounts).
> 

But we do, since there are applications which use getmntent() and 
friends to parse /proc/mounts.

	-hpa

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