Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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