Re: vfs-fix-d_path-for-unreachable-paths.patch

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 10:22 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> Somebody is buggy here, but I'm not sure who. The initrd for leaving a dangling
> reference, the patch for breaking /proc/mounts, or /sbin/restorecon and the
> shutdown script for being far too trusting of what the kernel tells it?
> 

Hugh Dickins reported a similar issue, where gnome-vfs chokes on
that /proc/mounts line as well.

I think the conclusion is that this change in /proc/mounts is not going
to work.  There are two solutions:

 1) leave out unreachable mounts from /proc/PID/mounts altogether
 2) completely revert /proc/PID/mounts to the old behavior

The first option is much less likely to break something than the current
patch, but it's still an ABI change.

So I think it's better to go with the second option.  Patches coming
up...

Thanks,
Miklos


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