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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:32:40
Message-Id: 525C70FE.3040505@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink by Mike Gilbert
1 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > This is a horrible example. /etc/resolv.conf is a configuration file
3 > for code that lives entirely in userspace. Of course it makes no sense
4 > to shove that into the kernel.
5
6 My point is that it's silly to have a hard-coded special case in the
7 kernel for mtab, especially if it doesn't do the job properly and
8 requires an extra utab file, when the general solution could work for
9 any file and wouldn't require any changes when the namespace feature
10 isn't in use.