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
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.



More information about the busybox mailing list