Re: mount(2) bug found

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:11:35 +0100 (BST)

> Think about using mount in a chroot'ed environment as Rik is doing or the
> case of a read only root filesystem - keeping all copies of /etc/mtab
> in sync is just not possible, even if that should be part of your
> equation.

Its possible, been there done that as they say. Its was done via cron
because sys5.2 mtab got lseek()'d. A lot of the other stuff read from
named pipes

You have to ask the question anyway - do you want the truth in a secured
area of your system 8)

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