[Bug 712925] Re: mount is silly at mounting exclusively opened file systems

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[Expired for util-linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]

** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  mount is silly at mounting exclusively opened file systems

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  Bug 711799 exposed this behaviour of mount. It does a number of stupid things:
  1. It does not notice that the file system is exclusively open
  2. It does not notice that the file system is marked unclean

  Furthermore, mount shows it lack of intelligence by trying to mount it,
  1. despite of the facts above
  2. not timing out when it doesn't succeed
  3. ignoring all signals trying to make mount exit gracefully

  At least it seems, that mount checks solely if the file system is in
  /proc/mounts, and if it isn't, it goes through irrespective of
  anything else; if need be hanging itself.

  (I filed the bug on amd64, though the behaviour was noticed on 32-bit.
  It remains to be seen if the source code is identical.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb  4 14:43:08 2011
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux

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