Bug#637082: #637082

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

2011/11/1 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>:
> But whole approach - trying to canonicalize the path this way -
> is most likely wrong.  It shouldn't be needed for the kernel
> since it will do path resolution internally anyway during
> mount.  And it breaks various pseudo filesystems, incl.
> tmpfs, aufs, nfs, etc, where the device part of mount operation
> is not really a pathname.

So let's just not canonicalize it then.  Would you like a new patch to do that?

(FYI, FreeBSD mount canonicalizes, but it might be gratuitous there too)

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Robert Millan