Re: apmd and other archs

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:15:32PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Re: mounting /etc readonly: how do you handle /etc/mtab in that case? :-)

Symlink it to /proc/mounts, of course. :)

/etc/mtab has always been evil, and not just because it's in the wrong
directory.  It's about equivalent to the "route" or "ipchains" commands
keeping track of what _they_ thought the kernel settings were, and then if
you tried to list the routes or firewall rules, they would just cat the
file.  Yuck.

Have fun,

Avery