racy updates of /etc/mtab
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Sep 17 22:51:45 UTC 2006
On Sunday 17 September 2006 11:53 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 17:23, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 15 September 2006 2:07 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > That's why we have it as a CONFIG option.
> > >
> > > But if we *support it*, why not support it *correctly*?
> >
> > I really can't argue with that logic, but please try not to make it
noticeably
> > bigger. The reason it's deprecated is it has unfixable design flaws, so
> > it'll never be perfect...
>
> Please see attached. No, I'm not too fond of it.
> (umount is not covered in this patch)
Sheer bloat. Makes the file significantly bigger for negligible benefit. Not
worth the size hit.
You asked. :)
Rob
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