Sent this in 2010 as email to pkg-sysvinit-devel... : PS: now I'm on sid, the following was from 2010:
To use 'mount --make-rshared' on say /media or /mnt, requires that I first run: mount -o bind /media /media to create a mountpoint at /media, so that subsequently I can successfully run: mount --make-rshared /media This is useful when using chroots, as I do. I was using "mountpoint -q $DIR" to determine if an arbitrary directory was mounted or not, in my chroot u/mount script. Unfortunately this broke when I started using "mount -o bind /media /media". So since /bin/mountpoint does not work, I am instead now using: if mount | grep "on ${DIR} type" > /dev/null; then ...; fi I just checked initscripts in a Ubuntu 10.04 chroot guest (initscripts "Version: 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17"), on my Ubuntu 8.04 host, and /bin/mountpoint there displays the same bug. My Ubuntu 8.04 uname -a: Linux ip61 2.6.24-28-generic #1 SMP Sat Oct 16 17:46:03 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45.1 Hope the above is useful, Zenaan -- Free Australia: www.UPMART.org Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org