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@@ -184,3 +184,26 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-22
     <pinotree> status is 644 though
     <jkoenig> but status contains information which anyone can ask to the proc
       server anyway, I think.
+
+
+# `/proc/mounts`, `/proc/$pid/mounts`
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-25
+
+    < pinotree> jkoenig: btw, what do you think about providing empty
+      /proc/mounts and /proc/$pid/mounts files?
+    < jkoenig> pinotree, I guess one would have to evaluate the consequences
+      wrt. existing use cases (in other words, "I have absolutely no clue
+      whatsoever about whether that would be desirable" :-)
+    < jkoenig> pinotree, the thing is, an error message like "/proc/mounts: No
+      such file or directory" is rather explicit, whereas errors which would be
+      caused by missing data in /proc/mounts would maybe be harder to track
+    < braunr> this seems reasonable though
+    < braunr> there already are many servers with e.g. grsecurity or chrooted
+      environments where mounts is empty
+    < pinotree> well, currently we also have an empty mtab
+    < braunr> pinotree: but what do you need that for ?
+    < braunr> pinotree: the init system ?
+    < pinotree> and the mnt C api already returns no entries (or it bails out,
+      i don't remember)
+    < pinotree> not a strict need