* Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab
@ 2020-10-16 10:14 Norbert Lange
2020-10-16 13:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Norbert Lange @ 2020-10-16 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Hello,
On Linux, /etc/mtab is ancient history, please use /proc/self/mounts.
Atleast the _unmountable function is affected.
(its easy to add an compatibility symlink, but this should not be necessary)
Norbert
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* Re: Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab
2020-10-16 10:14 Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab Norbert Lange
@ 2020-10-16 13:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-10-16 14:11 ` Norbert Lange
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Shahaf @ 2020-10-16 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norbert Lange, zsh-users
Norbert Lange wrote on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:14 +00:00:
> Hello,
>
> On Linux, /etc/mtab is ancient history, please use /proc/self/mounts.
> Atleast the _unmountable function is affected.
> (its easy to add an compatibility symlink, but this should not be necessary)
Can we just s#/etc/mtab#/proc/self/mounts#g? I.e., what Linux systems
_don't_ have /proc/self/mounts? (New systems with custom kernel
configs? Old systems? _How_ old?)
Failing that, the code will have to use /proc/self/mounts if it exists
and /etc/mtab otherwise.
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* Re: Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab
2020-10-16 13:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
@ 2020-10-16 14:11 ` Norbert Lange
2020-10-16 14:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
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From: Norbert Lange @ 2020-10-16 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Shahaf; +Cc: zsh-users
Am Fr., 16. Okt. 2020 um 15:35 Uhr schrieb Daniel Shahaf
<d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>:
>
> Norbert Lange wrote on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 10:14 +00:00:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Linux, /etc/mtab is ancient history, please use /proc/self/mounts.
> > Atleast the _unmountable function is affected.
> > (its easy to add an compatibility symlink, but this should not be necessary)
>
> Can we just s#/etc/mtab#/proc/self/mounts#g? I.e., what Linux systems
> _don't_ have /proc/self/mounts? (New systems with custom kernel
> configs? Old systems? _How_ old?)
>
> Failing that, the code will have to use /proc/self/mounts if it exists
> and /etc/mtab otherwise.
Hi,
/proc/self/mounts has been available since Linux 2.4.19, released in 2002.
Given how likely that is to run on current hardware I'd say, just sed away.
/proc/self/mounts is itself superseded by /proc/self/mountinfo,
which contains more info but has a different format.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
Norbert
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* Re: Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab
2020-10-16 14:11 ` Norbert Lange
@ 2020-10-16 14:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Shahaf @ 2020-10-16 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Norbert Lange; +Cc: zsh-users
Norbert Lange wrote on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:11 +0200:
> /proc/self/mounts has been available since Linux 2.4.19, released in 2002.
> Given how likely that is to run on current hardware I'd say, just sed away.
+1
Anyone wants to do the honours?
> /proc/self/mounts is itself superseded by /proc/self/mountinfo,
> which contains more info but has a different format.
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
Good point. However, is any of the additional info important enough to
be printed by default (as a completion or as a description)? Or at
least, important enough to be parsed by compsys and made available to
completion functions via some API?
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* Bug/Request: _umountable should not depend on /etc/mtab
@ 2020-10-02 9:29 Norbert Lange
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Norbert Lange @ 2020-10-02 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
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Hello,
On Linux, /etc/mtab is ancient history, please use /proc/self/mounts.
Atleast the _unmountable function is affected.
(its easy to add an compatibility symlink, but this should not be necessary)
Norbert
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