On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:58:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html > > Things like: > > * ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug? > > aren't really relevant for this, [...] > It was a bug until code was added to cope with a symlink to some > writeable area. Same with /etc/mtab. > There are sveral patches around > (one accepted but not yet added by upstream) to allow /etc/mtab to > link to something other than /proc/mounts. If it's the same with /etc/mtab, then we don't need any patches; if we do need the patches then it's a problem, IYSWIM. I don't see any big difficulty in just linking it to /proc/mounts for a livecd though. > As I said, debix can take care of all that on a much lower and > earlier level so that should not concern. Maybe I've just missed it, but what's the URL? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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