Bug#637082: #637082

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

2011/11/20 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>:
>> (FYI, FreeBSD mount canonicalizes, but it might be gratuitous there too)
>
> I don't see where it does that.  It canonicalizes the target directory
> argument, that's for sure, but not the "spec" argument.  See
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount/mount.c?rev=1.117 ,
> function mountfs() -- it calls checkpath() on `name' but does not
> touch `spec'.  Later in mount_fs.c:mount_fs(), it again canonicalizes
> `dir' but does not touch `dev'.

Uhm you're right, seems like I got confused.

> So I'll just drop this one realpath() call for the time being.

Seems fine to me.

Thanks!

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Robert Millan