Re: [PATCH] utils/mount: canonicalize mountpoints

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Gabriele Giacone (2014-06-16 00:25:53)
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Justus Winter
> <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> > Quoting Gabriele Giacone (2014-06-15 12:56:13)
> >> >> Such hunks are workarounds at the moment because hurd mounts paths by
> >> >> keeping superfluous '/' and '.' in pathnames if specified at mount
> >> >> time, which need to be specified at umount time as well to umount
> >> >> successfully.
> >> >
> >> > But then that won't fix the case when people use settrans by hand, so
> >> > perhaps it should be rather done there?
> >>
> >> Yes, that should fix all cases.
> >
> > I don't understand.  mount doesn't execute settrans, so why would
> > fixing settrans help?
> 
> Ok, I just meant fixing pathnames at lower level than mount/umount
> utils, I didn't take a look at it yet.

Wouldn't that be the fstab parser then?

Justus