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

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Message-ID: <478EC131.8030103@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	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

Andrew Morton 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.
> 

There is a lot of precedent for adding fields at the end.  Since the 
last fields in current /proc/*/mounts are dummy fields anyway, it 
doesn't matter if the homegrown parsers concatenate the additional 
information to those.

	-hpa
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