Re: smbmount and mount [and spaces in devices]
Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.7l-4
>
> This is a bug. I'm opening a bug report. Credit goes to Jens.
> [I did bump into this earlier, but I had forgotten it already..;)]
>
> On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 06:50:29PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> > I see this strange behaviour of samba:
> > I mount a share from a Windows box (with a space in it):
> > smbmount //tornado\!/"xyz iii" xyz -I foobar
> > (xyz is a directory), I use the data in xyz and umount it.
> >
> > Now mount reports:
> > //tornado!/xyz on iii type /mnt/xyz/tornado1/xyz (smbfs)
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> > Strange isn´t it?
> [...]
> > Is it a fearture or a bug? If it is the latter one, where to report?
>
> Actually, it isn't strange. Status of currently mounted
> filesystems is saved in /etc/mtab, and this file has one
> line per mount, fields separated with a _space_. So, if
> you have a mount point/device with a space, fields are split
> wrong.
>
I had a similar problem with my package `vold' that mounts cdroms under
`/cdrom/<volume>'
If the CD has a volume name with a space (not allowed by iso9660---but who cares
nowadays?)
`mount' showed up weird things. I `fixed' this behaviour by a " " -> "_" change
in the mtab entrys.
By the way, mtab entries are read/written by `getmntent' if i remember
correctly...
---david
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