Re: fstab (was Re: busybox 'umount -a' segfaults)
On Sat Nov 27, 1999 at 01:34:47PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
>
> > Ok, I see the problem. Inside umount, I call getfsfile("/")
> > to try and get the name of the root device. Libc then internally
> > opens /etc/fstab to try and get the real device name of the
> > root device, fails (since for whatever reason /etc/fstab exists
> > but is empty (why?)), and returns NULL. I tried to dereference
> > the NULL struct mntent* -> boom. I'll fix it right up.
>
> Regarding root.bin /etc/fstab -- should that be set as so:
>
> /dev/root / ext2 defaults 0 1
>
> ? I could populate this from scripts/rootdisk/prototype/...
>
Wouldn't hut, but it doesn't matter much now that I have the bug
fixed. Hmm. Why even have /etc/fstab at all? It itn't providing any
useful information for the boot floppies I can see (unless I'm missing
something).
-Erik
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