[Buildroot] [PATCH 04/24 v2] system/skeleton: update etc/mtab with a more sensible link

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jul 5 13:28:39 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:07:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Currently, our /etc/mtab points to /proc/mounts. This was all neat so
> far, and was good for a sysv-like init system.
> 
> However, the way today is to point it at /proc/self/mounts, the
> per-process mount tab.
> 
> Additionnally, that's what systemd expects. If /etc/mtab is not a
> symlink to ../proc/self/mounts and the rootfs is readonly, systemd would
> whine loudly (and a service unit would be marked failed).
> 
> Since it works well for sysv-like init systems too, just use that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> ---
>  system/skeleton/etc/mtab | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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