Bug in mountpoint applet?

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Aug 14 13:32:49 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:08:28PM +0200, Harald Becker wrote:
> > , and parsing /proc/mounts is at least slow and unreliable.
> 
> Don't talking about speed ... sure, /proc/mounts is
> unreliable ... but /proc/self/mountinfo seams to be reliable.

What happens when you mount to a pathname containing embedded spaces
and newlines?

Hardly seems reliable now...

Rich


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