On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 11/27/2013 02:58 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> for some reason systemd has /bin/mount hardcoded in > >> src/core/mount.c:mount_enter_mounting() > >> > >> Which is a bit odd, seeing that everyting moved to /usr/bin. > >> So we always have to do a symlink here, which really is a bit annoying. > >> > >> Is this by design or a simple left-over? > > > > If *everything* moved to /usr/bin, then /bin itself has to be a > > symlink anyway (as many tools expect and some standards require > > specific commands to be in /bin). > > > Ah. IIRC it was _systemd_ which initiated the move to /usr, so I > found it slightly odd to rely on a location which it has just > obsoleted ... > Or, rather, to have a hard-coded location to start with. It's a pragmatic choice: we know that /bin/mount will work both for separate-/usr and merged-/usr. We *could* introduce a configure time check for the location of mount, but there would be no practical gain. Not having /bin at all is very unlikely, since /bin/sh is hardcoded in many more places.
C.f. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55248, where gentoo had kexec in a different place. In that case a practical reason existed. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
