> Good question. I've been trying to dig out the history and it doesn't > seem especially clear even to me. I think I must have reasoned that (a) > using $tmpmnt wasn't significantly worse than using /target (I hadn't > thought of the security risk) Speaking of the security risk, AFAICS via light browsing of packages.ubuntu.com, jaunty has os-prober that still uses third-party mount even when run on an installed system, *and* grub-pc depends on os-prober. That's an expecially bad combination (lenny's grub-pc only suggests os-prober). -- see shy jo
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