Opened 9 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#1092 new task
Current status for /etc/mtab — at Version 1
| Reported by: | William Harrington | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | CLFS Standard 3.1.0 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | CLFS Standard GIT |
| Keywords: | Cc: | berzerkula@…, jonathan@…, chris@…, cross-lfs@… |
Description (last modified by )
/etc/mtab is no longer being referenced in util-linux-2.27.1, systemd 228, and future glibc releases.
So far it has been appropriate to have /etc/mtab as a link to /proc/self/mounts.
We should be able to remove the creation of mtab altogether in the future.
Refer to the following for more information:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1495
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19108
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00418.html
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/02501746
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