Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin

[Ulrich Drepper]

On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Possibly for fstatfs(): fstatfs() has no way of looking up mount points per
> path name in /proc/mounts, and so it resorts to mapping from the numeric
> statfs->f_type to the filesystem name (e.g., "ext3"), looks up the first
> mount point with that name, and sets the statfs->f_flag flags based on that
> entry. This field may change from one arbitrary value to another.

What are you talking about?  fstatfs is a syscall, we do nothing but
copying values around at userlevel.

statvfs on the other hand does use /proc/mounts.  And it most
certainly does look at the mount point before looking at the
filesystem type.
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