Re: df shouldn't list mount points that it can't access

[n0dalus]

On 10/12/05, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> No, people don't want to be able to see proc mounts by default.  But
> for proc mounts, fsu.fsu_blocks should be zero so the following code
> in show_dev should prevent the mount from being listed:
>
>   if (fsu.fsu_blocks == 0 && !show_all_fs && !show_listed_fs)
>     return;
>
> Can you please investigate why that isn't happening for you?
> I'm worried that your fix masks out a more-fundamental bug.
> Thanks.
>

Hi,

I found that simply when the user has no permissions to access the
mount directory, statfs will return an error (errno = EACCES).

df then reports this error.

The attached patch should fix this.

n0dalus.

coreutils-df-ignore-noaccess.patch
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