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bug#15986: df in current coreutils shows the device for loop mounts, not


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#15986: df in current coreutils shows the device for loop mounts, not the file
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:01:09 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Philipp Thomas wrote:
> * Linda Walsh (address@hidden) [20131129 07:40]:
> > I can think of 2 cases where the kernel displays the wrong information
> > concerning mounts.
> 
> The discuss this with the kernel maintainers! Coreutils is the wrong place
> for this discussion.

For this point I disagree.  Because coreutils often has to deal with
kernel (Linux and otherwise) problems.  There have been many
workarounds for kernel bugs in the userland code.  I might argue that
all of the glib overrides shouldn't exist in a perfect world.

Bob





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