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

[Karel Zak]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:30:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:12:31 +0100
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > In theory it could break userspace, but I think it's very unlikely to
> > do so, because stuff is added only at the end of the lines, and
> > because most programs probably parse it through the libc interface
> > which is not broken by this change.  Despite this, it should be tested
> > on as many systems as possible.
> 
> 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.

 So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)

    Karel

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