On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:59:21PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > It is still not proven that this error can be reproduced w/o using root > > privileges - > > To repo - I have done this *4* times now: Indeed, I heard you the first two times, as, I suspect, did the other 83 people on the -rc ML.
It is sometimes difficult to describe all the conditions leading up to a problem, so we appreciate your patience. I have guessed that your /etc/mtab is a file, and not a symlink; indeed, many people, myself included, have mtab => /proc/mounts, and this bug almost certainly depends on mount detecting that mtab is a regular file and not a symlink. Could you confirm that your mtab is a regular file? Yes, I can confirm that one can kill mount as a normal user. And, yes, I can confirm having reproduced the reported problem. Note, also, this very weird behaviour: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /cdrom/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /cdrom/ Classic Rock That is inconsistent at the VFS level, as best I know. The first `ls` required the drive to spin up, the second did not. The first one, however, was fully spun up when it returned. getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 The second ls has: getdents64(3, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 80 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep cdrom /proc/mounts; /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep cdrom /etc/mtab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
